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Incidents in Paris on the sidelines of the demonstration against police violence which gathered nearly 20,000 people (photos + videos)
Incidents erupted Tuesday night in Paris on the sidelines of a banned demonstration of 20,000 people denouncing police violence, organized on the initiative of the relatives of Adama Traoré the day when an expert report was put forward implicating the gendarmes in the death of this young black man when he was arrested in 2016.
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“Some incidents on the sidelines of the prohibited demonstration for which the police are intervening,” tweeted shortly after 9:00 pm the prefecture of police, which had prohibited this rally at the call of the collective Adama, which gathered thousands of people around the courthouse before they scattered.
The rally, which started at 7:00 p.m. on the forecourt of the court in northeast Paris, was disrupted by projectile jets and the police used tear gas.
The demonstrators then dispersed in the surrounding streets and on the ring road. Hundreds of them blocked the cars on the artery overlooked by the swirls of smoke, allowing them to drop by the drip.
Sporadic clashes erupted on the ring road, where police received stone throws and responded by shooting with the LBD.
In the streets, barricades were erected and bicycles were set on fire.
At the beginning of the evening, Assa Traoré, older sister of Adama Traoré, who died in 2016 after his arrest in the Val-d’Oise, had launched to the crowd: “Today, it is only the fight of the Traoré family, it’s all of you fighting (…). Today, when we fight for Georges Floyd, we fight for Adama Traoré “.
Faced with the young woman, spokesperson for the Adama Collective, demonstrators, young and of all origins, chanted “Revolt” or “Everyone hates the police”.
The death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black American who was asphyxiated by a white police officer in the United States, sparked protests in the country over the past week against police brutality, racism and social inequality.
Tuesday morning in Paris, the prefecture of police had announced that the demonstration was not authorized because of the state of health emergency which prohibits any public gathering of more than ten people, because it had not been “the object no prior declaration ”.
The PP also believed that “the tone of the call to protest relayed by social networks raised fears that overflows could occur on a sensitive site”.
Reuters
20,000 people participated
About 20,000 people participated Tuesday evening in the Paris court in a prohibited rally, interspersed with incidents, at the call of the family support committee of Adama Traoré, a 24-year-old young black man who died in 2016 after his arrest. , we learned from the police headquarters.
Tuesday morning, the prefecture of police had announced that the demonstration was not authorized because of the state of health emergency which prohibits any public gathering of more than ten people, because it had not been the subject of no prior declaration ”. The PP also believed that “the tone of the call to protest relayed by social networks raised fears that overflows could occur on a sensitive site”.
