Saint-Denis – Paris / Anatolia
Pro-Palestine activists staged a demonstration in the Saint-Denis suburb of the French capital, Paris, to protest the soccer match between France and Israel on Thursday night.
Anadolu journalist said that the protestors gathered in “Popular Front Square” and carried Palestinian flags and banners reading “Stop genocide” and “70 percent of the dead in Gaza are children and women.”
The demonstrators chanted slogans such as “Long live the struggle of the Palestinian people” and “Free Palestine”, in response to the French authorities allowing a game to be played with Israel, as a result of the genocide which the Israeli army did in Gaza for more than a year.
In his speech at the show, a French lawyer of Palestinian origin, Salah Hammouri, author of the book “The Prisoner of Jerusalem,” said that the “soccer team of the Genocidal State of Israel” came tonight to Paris with the support of French . President Emmanuel Macron.
Hammouri reminded that Macron and former French presidents François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy will be present at the game.
He believed that “the presence (of the French president) in the stadium tonight is part of the difficulty of France in the ongoing genocide (in Gaza).”
The French lawyer called for a boycott of Israel in the diplomatic, cultural and military fields.
For his part, a member of parliament from the far-right party “Proud France”, Eric Cockerill, expressed his displeasure with the game.
Some demonstrators formed a march that traveled through the streets of the suburb, starting from the Popular Front Square, while the police tried to prevent the march from proceeding.
A few weeks ago, Palestinian supporters in France called for the game to be canceled, and they asked the French fans to boycott the game, and the players of the French national team to refuse to play.
French authorities took tight security measures against the backdrop of tensions and riots in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam, sparked by racist chants by fans of the Maccabi Tel Aviv football team against the Arabs during his game with Ajax, Holland, on November 7.
The French police placed a security zone around the stadium where the match was held, and searched people who came to this area.
Fans were also asked not to come to the stadium with bags and bottles, and shops around the stadium were closed at 15.30 local time.
4,000 police and gendarmes were deployed, as well as 1,400 stadium workers, and fans were banned from sitting in the stands near the game area and from carrying the Palestinian flag.
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2024-11-14 22:14:00
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