A young woman was detained for four hours in police custody on Thursday in Toulouse to answer a banner outside her home, say her lawyer Claire Dujardin and the local section of the NPA. The message "Macronavirus when will it end?" Was inspired by the front page of the weekly Charlie Hebdo on January 29.
The affair began on Tuesday when the police intervened in this pavilion in the La Roseraie district, whose garden wall had been covered with this message targeting the President of the Republic. The residents complied with the request to drop out, but the police returned the next day to give a summons to one of them who agreed to identify himself. Thursday, she was therefore placed in police custody on the grounds of "contempt", only to be released without immediate action, according to her lawyer.
"The offense is not made up, we are rather on intelligence, on the political police" in "a context where we can no longer demonstrate," said Mr. Dujardin. The NPA-31 for its part was moved by "a serious case of questioning of freedom of expression", in a motion supported in particular by the local sections of the CGT, the PCF, EELV and LDH.
Similar cases in Paris, Marseille and Caen
This case came after other cases since the beginning of April of police visits to confined residents who had displayed banners with political overtones on their facades, according to Mediapart .
A police source confirmed that in Paris the police had intervened on April 14 with a couple for a banner "Macron we are waiting for you at the exit", considered to have a "somewhat threatening character towards the chief of State ". “There was a discussion. There was no verbalization. The banner has been removed, ”said the source.
Mediapart also reports on five police interventions in a Marseille squat, two of which were confirmed by the prefecture, and two summonses from residents, for a banner "Do you want to know if you have corona?" Spit on a bourgeois and await his results ”. In Caen finally, according to the information site, the municipal police intervened with residents to discuss, but without requesting the removal of their banner.
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