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In Paris, 24 fines and 10 arrests were made among the 3,000 people present, according to figures from the police headquarters.
Systematic bans
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”following the attack perpetrated on Saturday by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Israel, in a telegram sent Thursday to the prefects.
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In Paris, demonstrators gathered at Place de la République chanting ” Palestine will win “or “Israel assassin, Macron complicit”, carrying Palestinian flags. The monument to the Republic, in the center of the square, has been tagged with a « Free Palestine » in capital letters.
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 followingnoon to maintain this ban.
A few days following the Hamas offensive on Israel, the summary judge cited the context of a “extreme violence” and “proven risks of exporting this violence (…) on national soil” with regard, in particular, to the “renewed anti-Semitic acts” since this attack.
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Demonstrations canceled, others maintained
On Wednesday evening, pro-Palestinian rallies were held in Nantes, Nîmes, Bordeaux and Toulouse, despite prefectural bans taken for lack of prior declaration as well as for reasons of public security.
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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 police using tear gas.
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On Thursday, the prefect of Hérault banned two other demonstrations, planned for Friday in Béziers and Saturday in Montpellier.
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