Against the prefectural ban on the march in memory of Adama Traoré on Saturday in Paris, Place de la République, rebellious France is upwind. Several members of the group have already announced that they will defy the ban. “From interdiction to repression, from Pétain to Current Values, the leader of the Republican arc is leading France into a regime that has already been seen. Hazard. Danger,” tweeted LFI founder Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“By dint of multiplying the prohibitions of a constitutional right, that of demonstrating, of practicing a disproportionate repression of social movements, of employing a doctrine of use of the police dangerous for freedoms (…) the executive puts France on the bench of democracies, ”added the rebellious deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis, Éric Coquerel. The latter will be present at the Paris rally, with a dozen deputies from the movement, including the leader of the group Mathilde Panot.
“There is the authoritarian slope”, for Sandrine Rousseau
An order was issued on Saturday to ban this rally scheduled for the seventh anniversary of the death of Adama Traoré. A rally in Val-d’Oise in memory of the 24-year-old, who died shortly after his arrest by gendarmes in July 2016, was also banned after the recent riots that followed the death of 17-year-old Nahel.
“Little by little public freedoms are losing ground (…) No longer being able to demonstrate against a power, it is to accept the speech (…) There is the authoritarian slope”, reacted on Twitter the ecologist deputy Sandrine Rousseau. Several elected EELV could participate in the rally in Paris.
“These marches have always been peaceful. It is precisely the fact of prohibiting it which can cause there to be tensions, because people are angry, it must be understood, ” noted on BFMTV Antoine Léaument, LFI deputy for Essonne.
Renaissance castigates the behavior of rebellious deputies
In the presidential camp, La France insoumise is once again accused of wanting to stir up tensions. “You are always on the side of disorder, against the rule of law. You have never called for calm, ”said Maud Bregeon, Renaissance deputy for Hauts-de-Seine, denouncing a “separatist logic” of the movement. “You will bear a heavy responsibility if we witness violence this afternoon,” she warned.
Thirty other demonstrations against police violence are planned this Saturday in France for “the maintenance of public and individual freedoms” and “an in-depth reform of the police”.