A few thousand people demonstrated this Saturday, during the March for Freedom, to protest against the "Global Security" law.

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ERIC DESSONS / JDD / SIPA

The list of "inadmissible drifts" is long.

Several associations and unions denounced Sunday of “arbitrary arrests” during the demonstration the day before against the very controversial proposal for a comprehensive security law in Paris, where nearly 150 demonstrators were arrested.

"Mass arrests, unfounded charges causing the procession to burst, retained without a legitimate reason beyond the legal deadline, police custody notified to the chain on the basis of misguided criminal offenses ...": for these associations including Attac, the National Union journalists or the Human Rights League.

120 people in custody, including two journalists

"As we feared", they continue in their press release, "the Parisian demonstration, although duly declared by a collective of organizations and authorized by the police headquarters, has turned into a mousetrap".

In Paris, among the 10,000 demonstrators according to the organizers, half the number according to the police, 120 were taken into custody, including at least two journalists: a reporter from the media QG and another from the Reporters en Anger (REC) collective.

The custody of the first was extended on Sunday, the founder of HQ, Aude Lancelin, told AFP.

He is suspected of "assembling with a view to committing violence", "refusal to comply with a dispersal order" and "concealing the face" while, according to Aude Lancelin, he was wearing a simple protective mask.

The REC reporter was released on Sunday without prosecution, Emmanuel Vire of the SNJ-CGT told AFP.

Two high school students arrested in the procession were also released without prosecution on Sunday afternoon, while two underage high school students were given a reminder to the law, he added.

After two demonstrations against the global security law marked by violence in Paris, the police on Saturday changed tactics by intervening throughout the demonstration by "offensive leaps" to challenge any person suspected of wanting to constitute a "bloc ".

According to the police, these “blocks” are made up of small, very mobile groups which are grafted onto the procession to destroy businesses and do battle with the police.

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