Police officers, relatives of police officers and sympathizers gathered on Saturday afternoon June 27 in Paris at the call of the association Femmes des forces deorder anger (FFOC), “in the face of division, the undermining of our values, antiflic hatred».
According to a journalist from Figaro present at the event, around 300 people gathered at 2:30 p.m. place Louis Lépine, in the 4th arrondissement. Initially planned for Place de la République, the gathering finally moved to this place on the Ile de la Cité, “because of threats,” says the association Femmes des forces de police en anger.
A dozen counter-demonstrators, “yellow vests” or activists of the far left were prevented by the security forces, present in number, from accessing the rally, said an AFP journalist. After an identity check, they were asked to leave the area.
More than 200 police officers had already gathered Friday evening in front of the Bataclan in Paris, concert hall bereaved during the attacks of November 13, to protest against the accusations of police violence and racism against their profession, and to denounce a lack of support from the Interior.
Several dozen vans, motorcycles, and cars blocked the street outside the concert hall around 11:30 p.m., an AFP journalist found. In plain clothes or in uniform, weapon on their belts, the police placed their handcuffs in silence on the pavement, before intoning a Marseillaise in protest.
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