Bertrand Heilbronn was arrested “at the end of his interview with the MEAE (Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, editor’s note)”, tweeted the Association France Palestine Solidarité, demanding his “immediate release”.
The president of the France Palestine Solidarity Association was taken into custody on Wednesday after a “forbidden” rally near the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris, Agence France-Presse (AFP) learned from the prefecture of police and association.
Bertrand Heilbronn was arrested “at the end of his interview with the MEAE (Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, editor’s note)”, tweeted the Association France Palestine Solidarité, demanding his “immediate release”.
“He was arrested by the police for having organized the pacifist rally which accompanied the delegation received (with 3 parliamentarians of which I am part)”, for her part tweeted PCF MP Elsa Faucillon. Jean-Luc Mélenchon also reacted on the social network, spoke of a “hardly believable situation”.
“The ban had been recalled”
The “demonstration was prohibited and the ban had been recalled,” said the Paris police headquarters, interviewed by AFP. There were also verbalizations, said the prefecture.
The Prefecture of Police on Wednesday banned a rally in Paris at the call of several organizations while the clash between Hamas and Israel on Wednesday evening left 65 dead in Gaza, a Palestinian enclave under Israeli blockade controlled by Hamas, and 7 on the Israeli side and showed no sign of appeasement.
In Grenoble, a demonstration called by the local branch of France Palestine Solidarity brought together some 350 people without incident, according to the prefecture.
“Shame on you, Israel”
To chants of “shame on you, Israel” and “long live Palestine”, the demonstrators wished to “support the Palestinian people”, as reported by Ghizlane, 35, who came after “seeing this on (the network social) Snap (chat). “
Surrounded by Palestinian flags, she says she is very moved to have “seen dead children” in Gaza, where the Israeli army has been carrying out bombings since Monday in retaliation for rocket fire launched by Hamas, in an unprecedented escalation of tension for years in the region.
For Mouaz, 25, it was above all “the bombings in Gaza, which left dozens of dead and wounded” which revolted him and pushed him to come Wednesday evening, Palestinian flag on his shoulders.
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