Risks of disturbances to public order are mentioned in Gap (Hautes-Alpes), Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), Lille (North), Dijon (Côte-d’Or), Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy (Meurthe- et-Moselle), Angers (Maine-et-Loire), Caen (Calvados), Angoulême (Charente), Tulle (Corrèze), Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), Grenoble (Isère), Bordeaux (2 p.m. place Pey Berland), Saint -Étienne (Loire), Le Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire), Pau (at 10:30 a.m. place Laherrere) and Villeurbanne (Rhône).
In the region, other gatherings are planned in Agen, (10 a.m. place Jasmin), in Périgueux (10:30 a.m. in front of the courthouse), Mont-de-Marsan (10:30 a.m. place St Roch), in La Rochelle (2:30 p.m. place du 14 July in Villeneuve-les-Salines), in Saintes (10:30 a.m. in front of the courthouse), in Bayonne (10:30 a.m. in front of the sub-prefecture) and in Angoulême (10 a.m. in front of the town hall).
Clashes to fear
Territorial intelligence also mentions risks of unrest in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), where an anti-drug rally near the unitary march is organized by the ultra-right. Clashes are thus to be feared with the ultra-left, specifies the note.
The Ministry of the Interior mobilized for this day – also marked by the presence of Pope Francis in Marseille, after a three-day state visit by King Charles III and Queen Camilla – between 130 and 135 mobile force units , or a total of 30,000 police officers and gendarmes.
In Paris, “a little more than 1,000 police officers will be mobilized,” said the Paris police prefect, Laurent Nuñez, on Saturday morning. He considers that “participating means endorsing slogans that hurt the police.”
“Public insult”
Gérald Darmanin sent a letter of support to the police and gendarmes on Friday and sent a telegram to the prefects, calling on them to “show particular vigilance regarding these gatherings”, to issue a ban order if necessary and to report the messages. “carriers of insulting and outrageous slogans against the institutions of the Republic, the police and the gendarmerie likely to fall within the scope of the law”.
On Friday, the Vienne prefecture seized the Poitiers prosecutor for “public insult” for a poster announcing a demonstration against police violence which associated a swastika with the logo of the national police.
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