This is a first since October 7. A major civic march against anti-Semitism was organized in Paris on Sunday, November 12, at the call of the presidents of the National Assembly and the Senate. According to the Paris police headquarters, 105,000 people demonstrated in the streets of the capital. In total, more than 182,000 people demonstrated in France today, according to the Interior Ministry. “Many citizens mobilized,” for her part greeted the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, also present at the head of the procession. The Parisian demonstration, which started at 3 p.m. from the Esplanade des Invalides, came to an end around 5 p.m. Follow our live stream.
The National Rally shaken up. A group of activists from a left-wing Jewish organization, Golem, briefly tried to oppose the participation of the leader of the National Rally deputies at the start of the demonstration, before being contained by the police. “We are exactly where we need to be,” launched Marine Le Pen a few minutes before the start of the march. His participation is contested by the left and the majority because of his party’s anti-Semitic past.
“Our agenda is the Republic,” according to Gérard Larcher. The march against anti-Semitism must be an opportunity for “republican surge”, declared the President of the Senate alongside his counterpart in the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, who hoped, on Public Senate, “may this march bring together our fellow citizens as much as possible”.
Nice, Strasbourg, Pau… Marches against anti-Semitism everywhere in France. More than 70 rallies have been announced across France to say no to anti-Semitism. Several thousand people gathered in Strasbourg, including several LFI deputies from Paris. In Pau, pMore than a thousand people gathered from 11:30 a.m. The mayor, François Bayrou, spoke to the crowd, launching a call for “national unity”, according to our colleagues from France 3 present on site. In Tours, the call to rally was very well attended, with around 2,000 participants, according to France 3. In Nice, the mayor, Christian Estrosi, announces 4 000 demonstrators.
A tribute from LFI to the Vél’ d’Hiv disrupted by demonstrators. Elected officials from La France insoumise and student associations had planned to lay wreaths in front of the monument to the Vél’ d’Hiv roundup on Sunday, not wishing to participate in the march against anti-Semitism planned for the afternoon. But there, they found several demonstrators with signs “Don’t touch the memory”, who denied them access to the place. The day before, the police headquarters had prohibited LFI from holding a gathering, as it had been declared too late, but it had nevertheless authorized a laying of wreaths. The tribute was expected to bring together around 500 people at the Square des Martyrs Jews, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.