The last demonstration against the “global security” law had gathered between 2000 (according to the prefecture) and 5,000 people (according to the organizers) on December 12th. The opponents (yellow vests, collective no to the “global security” law, National Council of the New Resistance, League of Human Rights, Attac, Press Club, Association of Victims of Security Crimes …) met you for a new “march of freedoms and justice” this Saturday, January 16. They ask for the total withdrawal of the “comprehensive security” bill from the so-called “separatism” bill.
“The bill on global security under debate in the National Assembly and the decrees allowing a listing of political, religious and philosophical opinions, as well as union membership have created an outcry from all walks of life” highlights before the intersyndicale FO, CGT, Solidaires and CNT. The organizations denounce the restriction “of collective freedoms and in particular the freedom to demonstrate”.
The start of the event is scheduled for Saturday at 2 p.m. symbolically from 225 cours Emile-Zola, in Gratte-Ciel, in Villeurbanne (address of the IGPN, General Inspectorate of the National Police). The procession will join Charpennes, then Avenue Thiers, Cours Lafayette, Rue Garibaldi, Cours Gambetta, Pont de la Guillotière and finally Bellecour via Place Antonin-Poncet.
Thierry Suquet, delegated prefect for defense and security to the prefect of the Rhône, took a new decree on January 13 , prohibiting several perimeters to the demonstrators, highlighting the incidents which occurred during the last demonstrations.
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Prohibited perimeters
This Saturday from 12 to 8 pm, “processions, parades and protest rallies are prohibited” in a large part of the Lyon peninsula. The entire perimeter between the Terreaux and Bellecour squares (Bellecour being excluded from the perimeter) are prohibited for demonstrators. The rue Victor-Hugo, as well as the place Carnot, are also closed to them.
This new point of departure for the event involves a new perimeter of prohibition “delimited by the corner of rue Garibaldi and cours Lafayette, rue Paul Bert, rue du Lac, rue Desaix, boulevard Marius Vivier-Merle, avenue Georges-Pompidou , rue de la Villette and cours Lafayette to the Rhône. Quai Sarrail, rue Paul Bert, rue Garibaldi and cours Lafayette between avenue Thiers and rue Garibaldi are excluded from this perimeter.
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