Protesters opposed to Éric Zemmour’s visit repelled by the police

Some 300 people, who had gathered on Saturday to protest against a visit by Éric Zemmour to a cultural center in Villeurbanne, were repelled by the police. The prefecture had banned any demonstration in front of the hall of the Cultural and Community Life Center where the former presidential candidate was to hold a signing session for his book at the start of the afternoon. I didn’t say my last word.

The police, present in large numbers, used tear gas to drive away the demonstrators, who were chanting “Zemmour break up! “, managing to confine them outside the prohibited perimeter, a hundred meters from the entrance to the room.

Éric Zemmour’s visit to Villeurbanne had initially been banned by the city’s socialist town hall, for fear of excesses. But the municipal decree, immediately attacked by a “referred freedom” of Reconquest, had been suspended Friday by the administrative court of Lyon. “I take note of the decision of the administrative judge. As soon as they decide to maintain their event, I call on the organizers to take responsibility”, reacted in a press release the PS mayor of this town adjoining Lyon, Cédric Van Styvendael, before calling “for the greatest calm” .

The signing session finally lasted about three hours and ended without further incident. The protesters dispersed peacefully, many of them heading towards central Lyon to take part in another demonstration against a proposed immigration law, which gathered around 750 people according to the prefecture, a thousand according to organizers.

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