Human rights defenders accuse these detentions of being “preventive”. Nearly two-thirds of those placed in police custody on the sidelines of the May 1 demonstration, Monday in Paris, were released without prosecution, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Paris prosecutor’s office.
Accusations of “preventive” police custody
According to the prosecution, 46 police custody measures were still in progress on Wednesday after extension, while 23 police custody had been lifted in order to continue investigations in the form of preliminary investigations. Many lawyers and human rights defenders have denounced since the beginning of the demonstrations against the pension reform “preventive” arrests and police custody. Nine of these police custody resulted in a criminal order, twelve were presented to magistrates for subsequent correctional hearings, also indicated the prosecution.
Eleven people in police custody were to appear immediately. According to an AFP journalist present at the Paris court on Wednesday afternoon, a dozen cases have been heard today, but the dismissal of a large majority of them at a later date has been requested, as right in this type of procedure.
“Serious violations of fundamental rights”
Latest episode, the general controller of places of deprivation of liberty Dominique Simonnot denounced in a letter of April 17 addressed to the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and revealed Wednesday “serious violations of fundamental rights” by the police during guards sight Parisian.
Dominique Simonnot believes that there has been “massive recourse” by the police to this type of measure, “deprivation of liberty for the purpose of maintaining public order”. On March 21, the Defender of Rights Claire Hédon was also alarmed by these arrests. A total of 540 people were arrested in France, including 305 in Paris, during the May Day demonstrations, Gérald Darmanin said on Tuesday, adding that 406 police and gendarmes had been injured on national territory.