“The prefect of police (…) did not prohibit the demonstration” but could not “issue a receipt” to the organizers whose prior declaration was not filed within the “legal deadlines”, namely more than three days before the day of mobilization, according to the code of internal security, underlined the prefecture in a press release.
The PP, which says it only received the statement on Tuesday at “12:20 p.m.”, invites the organizers to “draw the consequences of the law”. The organizers of a prohibited demonstration incur, according to the penal code, six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 7,500 euros. Participants risk a fine of 135 euros.
According to a source familiar with the matter, “they were counting on each other to make the declaration, suddenly they are out of time”. The unions FSU, CGT Educ’action, FO and SUD Education, as well as the FCPE, the first organization of parents of pupils, and the high school student movements FIDL, MNL and La Voix lycéenne called for “continuing the mobilization” after the very followed last Thursday, by engaging “in a new day of action Thursday, including by the strike”.
“The Paris police headquarters refuses to authorize the demonstration organized by the inter-union of Ile-de-France. Not content with remaining deaf to the anger and demands of the National Education staff, the government, through its representative, denies them the right to express it by demonstrating in Paris, ”regrets the CGT in a press release.
The union considers this decision of the prefect of police “unacceptable” and says “demand that the constitutional right to demonstrate be respected”. “After a successful demonstration, on January 13, the police prefecture prohibited the expression of the demands of the personnel following the announcements made by the Prime Minister (…) The FSU strongly protests and demands that the ban on demonstrations be lifted”, asked this union in another press release.
Faced with this ban on demonstrations, the FO union said “maintain (ir) (its) wish to gather in front of the Ministry of Education, that same day, Thursday”. “The reason for this refusal being the non-respect of the too short deadlines between our request and the date of the event, we point out to you that the deadlines were even shorter between the decision to put in place the last health protocol in the establishments and its implementation,” the union wrote in a statement.
A graceful appeal was sent by the unions.