The police verbalized Saturday in Paris demonstrators claiming "yellow vests", including Eric Drouet, for having violated an order prohibiting demonstrations within a perimeter defined by the authorities. At 6 p.m., 140 people had been fined and 32 people arrested, tweeted the police headquarters (PP). The PP had issued an order Friday prohibiting people claiming to be "yellow vests" to demonstrate in a perimeter including the institutions, but also the Champs-Elysées, Saint-Lazare station and department stores.
Responding to the call for "yellow vests" on social networks, several dozen demonstrators, without distinctive signs or banners, gathered at midday near the Council of State to march towards the Champs-Elysées.
"A constitutional right"
Among those charged with violating the order, one of the figures in the social movement Eric Drouet, who told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that he had received a "fine" after an identity check while he "looked at the cafe menu". "We are not free to demonstrate when it is a constitutional right," he said. The demonstrators, who dispersed under close police surveillance near the Council of State, then went to the outskirts of the Ministry of Justice.
At the same time, another demonstration called "yellow vests" and which had not been prohibited by the PP took place on another route in the capital.
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