During the medical staff demonstration this week in Paris. (illustration) - THIERRY LE FOUILLE / SIPA

Several demonstrations and rallies, in favor of the regularization of undocumented migrants or against police violence, are planned for this Saturday in Paris, where the police headquarters has banned some. The main call was launched at the national level for the regularization of undocumented migrants and comes from several collectives and the Marche des solidarités. Gatherings are therefore planned in several cities (Marseille, Lyon, Rennes, Lille, Toulouse, Grenoble, Strasbourg, Nantes, etc.). In Paris, the procession will set off at 2 p.m. from Place de la Nation to Stalingrad.

Another rally is planned for early afternoon at Place de la République in Paris in tribute to Lamine Dieng, a 25-year-old Franco-Senegalese who died in 2007 after an arrest in Paris. According to an amicable agreement unveiled on Monday by the European Court of Human Rights, the French state will pay 145,000 euros to the relatives of Lamine Dieng in order to settle any prosecution in this case. These two demonstrations were authorized by the Paris prefecture of police (PP) after "commitments on compliance with health rules" were made by the organizers, she said in a statement.

No demonstration for the Chechen community

The prefecture of police also authorizes for the same reasons a demonstration of "Parisians, commuters and resistance fighters everywhere" whose object is to protest against "the reforms going against their claims, precariousness, the decline in purchasing power and for obtaining their demands from the people for the people ”. The departure is scheduled at 11:00. The PP, on the other hand, indicated that it had banned a rally at the call of the Chechen community on Saturday afternoon at Place de la Bastille and Place du Palais-Royal because of "risks of public disorder". incidents in Dijon. Between 12 and 15 June, violent clashes between members of the Chechen community and residents of a district of the city.

The police prefecture also prohibited an unreported rally "likely to generate disturbances to public order and cause damage to property and people", scheduled for 3:00 p.m. Place de la Concorde near the Embassy of the United States. This mobilization was launched by the African Black Defense League, in particular "against negrophobia" and in memory of George Floyd, who died at the hands of the police in the United States.

Last Saturday, thousands of people had demonstrated in France against racism and police violence, including 15,000 in Paris according to the PP, at the call of the committee Adama Traoré, young black man who died in July 2016 after his arrest by gendarmes in Parisian region.

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