“Kabul to Paris” : the elected member of the Paris Council Aurélien Véron, support of Rachida Dati, is one of the numerous political and media personalities having pinned on X (formerly Twitter), this April 21, images of the clashes which occurred the day before in the 11th arrondissement capital city.
“I have had enough of our country becoming the doormat of the world, the country where we can do anything with total impunity”similarly denounced the president of the National Rally Jordan Bardella, relaying a video on which we see trashed street furniture and smoke bombs, on the sidelines of what he describes as a “Afghan demonstration” having degenerated in Paris.
Inviting the rioters to “return home to Afghanistan”the head of the Reconquest list in the Europeans Marion Maréchal deplored, on the afternoon of April 21, that“no media has[it] broadcast the images » of these scenes of chaos.
On the set of CNews – one of the only media to have covered these clashes, in the early evening of April 21 – journalist Véronique Jacquier saw in these events “a logic of conquest” and pointed ” A Totally failed and weak state”.
Clashes on the sidelines of a demonstration paying tribute to the victims of the fire on rue de Charonne
The demonstration which degenerated was, according to the Paris police headquarters, a mobilization in tribute to the victims of the fire of April 7, 2024 on rue de Charonne. In this case, reported The Parisian recently, the tenant of the apartment struck by the fire is suspected of having shot dead two of his guests, including one of his Afghan compatriots, before setting fire to the crime scene to remove the traces of his package. Three people died during this tragedy, for which the criminal trail is favored.
At the time of the dispersion of the Parisian mobilization of April 20, around 5:30 p.m., ” some [des quelques 200] demonstrators, who had remained on site, left in a wild procession, quickly blocked by the police.”has announced the next day on Prefecture. According to the same source, the authorities arrested four individuals who had committed damage to furniture and the situation returned to calm around twenty minutes later. In this context, the police used tear gas.