In Paris, 3,000 people gathered, under the cries of “Palestine will win”, or even “Israel assassin, Macron complicit” and “Zionists, you are terrorists”. Around ten arrests took place.
More than 3,000 people gathered Thursday, October 12 in the early evening at Place de la République in Paris in support of the Palestinians, despite the ban on this demonstration, confirmed by administrative justice, we learned Le Figaro with the Paris police headquarters. Due to the ban, and several excesses, 24 fines were issued and 10 people were arrested, according to an initial report at 8:30 p.m., we were told.
In the center of Rennes, an equally banned gathering brought together around fifty demonstrators, according to an AFP journalist. In Bordeaux, around a hundred responded to the call of the Girondin Collective for a just and lasting peace between Palestinians and Israelis, noted AFP journalists. Unlike the one organized the day before in the same city, this gathering was not prohibited by the prefecture.
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“Zionists, you are terrorists”
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, ordered the systematic ban on “pro-Palestinian demonstrations, because they are likely to generate disturbances to public order», after the attack perpetrated on Saturday by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Israel, in a telegram sent Thursday to the prefects. The ministry told AFP that “organizers» of these demonstrations and “the troublemakers» would be arrested.
In Paris, several hundred people gathered at Place de la République chanting “Palestine will win“, or “Israel assassin, Macron complicit”, equipped with Palestinian flags. “Zionists, Zionists, you are terrorists“, intoned demonstrators. The monument to the Republic, in the center of the square, has been tagged with “Free Palestine» in capital letters.
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Projectile jets and tear gas
Wiping off projectile jets, the police used a water cannon and tear gas to disperse the gathering, shortly before 7:30 p.m. Police chief Laurent Nuñez banned this gathering on Tuesday, predicting that it would be “the scene of attitudes, words and gestures, mainly of an anti-Jewish nature, inciting racial hatred and advocating the terrorist attacks perpetrated in recent days in the Middle East“. Urgently contacted by several associations, the Paris administrative court decided Thursday afternoon to maintain this ban.
A few days after the Hamas offensive on Israel, the judge in summary proceedings invoked a context of “extreme violence» and “proven risks of exporting this violence (…) on national soil» with regard, in particular, to the “resurgence of anti-Semitic acts» since this attack. The presidents of the AFPS (France Palestine Solidarity Association), Bertrand Heilbronn, and the FTCR (Federation of Tunisians for Citizenship of the Two Shores), Mohammed Ben Saïd, indicated to the AFP that they were not maintaining the call to demonstrate Thursday evening. But “we are not going to let go», added Mr. Heilbronn. “These demonstrations give a political outlet to an anger that wants to be expressed, it is important that we can carry this voice». «It is high time for France to pull itself together a little and move away from this unconditional support for the State of Israel.“, he added. For her part, the leader of CAPJPO-Europalestine, Olivia Zemor, told AFP her intention to “let people» manifest «if they want to do it».
On Wednesday evening, pro-Palestinian rallies were held in Nantes, Nîmes and Bordeaux, despite prefectural bans taken for lack of prior declaration as well as for reasons of public security. Despite the ban and cancellation by the organizers of the pro-Palestinian demonstration in Toulouse, a maximum of a hundred people gathered, before being dispersed by mobile gendarmes using tear gas. On Thursday, the prefect of Hérault banned two other demonstrations, planned for Friday in Béziers and Saturday in Montpellier.
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