Before Christmas, several days of mobilization had already brought together tens of thousands of people.

Like here in Nantes.

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LOIC VENANCE / AFP

Ready to demonstrate "as long as necessary", the opponents of the proposed law "comprehensive security", mobilized since November, will beat the pavement again on Saturday in many cities "for the defense of freedoms".

Nearly 80 rallies "for the right to information, against police violence, for the freedom to demonstrate and against mass surveillance" are planned, at the call of the coordination of associations and unions mobilized against this text, which restricts in particular the dissemination of images of the police.

They will be joined in the capital by the "chirps" of the "free parties" movement, rarely united, but which this time makes a common front "for the right to culture" and against the "disproportionate repression" after the rave party of Lieuron (Ille-et-Vilaine) which brought together 2,400 people at the New Year.

Despite "an unprecedented mobilization for the defense of freedoms, the government (us) opposed an end of inadmissibility", regrets, in its call to demonstrate, the coordination.

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This brings together associations such as the Human Rights League and Amnesty, as well as many unions and associations, including journalists and directors.

The bill, already passed at first reading in the National Assembly, must be examined in March in the Senate.

“The stakes are (…) major.

They affect the very respect for the rule of law "and the control of the authorities" by citizens, Parliament, justice and the press ", underline the associations, adding that" the measures of surveillance of the population must, them, remain the exception ”.

They still require the withdrawal of several provisions, starting with article 24, which penalizes the malicious dissemination of images of police officers.

A big demonstration announced on January 30

The collective, which asks to be received by President Emmanuel Macron, also targets articles 21 and 22 on the use of pedestrian cameras and drones by the police, and of the "new national plan for the maintenance of 'order' (SNMO), regularly invoked by the police to limit media coverage of the demonstrations.

In Paris, the event will leave at 2:00 p.m. from Place Daumesnil to join that of the Bastille.

Gatherings will also take place in Rennes, Nantes, Caen, Rouen and Le Havre, as well as in Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand or Dijon, in particular.

The mobilization against the “global security” bill, launched on November 17, gave rise to several days of demonstrations, often joined by “yellow vests”.

The most important, on November 28, gathered 500,000 people in the country according to the coordination, 133,000 according to the government.

A “big gathering” is already planned for Saturday, January 30 in Paris.

The bill has been strongly criticized in France by the Defender of Rights and the National Consultative Commission on Human Rights, and abroad by special rapporteurs of the United Nations and the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council. from Europe.

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