“French Minister Announces Ban on Ultra-Right Demonstrations After Controversial Neofascist Parade in Paris”

2023-05-09 16:15:15

After the neofascist parade on Saturday May 7 in Paris, the Minister of the Interior announced on Tuesday that he wanted systematic “prohibition orders”, leaving justice to decide.

Gérald Darmanin announced on Tuesday May 9 that he had asked the prefects to ban all ultra-right demonstrations in the future, following the controversy sparked by that of the May 9 Committee on Saturday in Paris, which had not been banned. . Questioned by a deputy on this subject, the Minister of the Interior judged, like the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, before him, “unacceptable” this demonstration.

“I gave instructions to the prefects” when “Any ultra-right or far-right activist or any association or collective, in Paris as everywhere on the territory, will file [déclarations de] manifestations [semblables à celle de samedi à Paris]» that they take “prohibition orders”, declared Gérald Darmanin to the National Assembly. “We will let the courts judge whether case law will allow these demonstrations to be held”, he added.

On Saturday, nearly 600 activists from the May 9 committee demonstrated in Paris to commemorate the anniversary of the death of far-right activist Sébastien Deyzieu, who died accidentally in 1994. These demonstrators, dressed in black and often masked , exhibited black flags marked with the Celtic cross and chanted, at the end of the rally, “Europe youth revolution”, a slogan from Italy taken up by the GUD (Defense Union Group) in the 1970s.

The Paris police chief, Laurent Nuñez, announced on Monday evening that he had seized the Paris prosecutor of the facts of concealment of the faces of the demonstrators, which constitutes an offense.

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