Demonstrators in the streets of Paris, January 16, 2021. -

Christophe Ena / AP / SIPA

They do not disarm: the opponents of the proposed law "global security", which penalizes in particular the malicious dissemination of images of police officers, demonstrated again this Saturday in Paris and in several cities of the country.

In the capital, a procession of a few thousand people marched in a snowy rain towards the Place de la Bastille, behind a banner demanding the withdrawal of this text, chanting "police everywhere justice nowhere" and "state of emergency , Police state, we will not be prevented from demonstrating!

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The police intervened to prevent "the holding of a rave party near the demonstration" in Paris, wrote the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin on Twitter.

According to the police headquarters, the organizers were fined and had sound equipment confiscated.

In several cities, the “chirps” of the “free parties” movement have indeed decided to join the movement “for the right to culture” and against the “disproportionate repression” launched after the rave of Lieuron (Ille-et- Vilaine) which brought together 2,400 people for the New Year.

Several arrests in Nantes

They were particularly numerous at the start of the demonstration in Nantes behind banners such as "we are all organizers of raves" or "The State assassinates: lives, cultures, freedoms".

The police reported three arrests after "throwing fireworks and glass bottles at the police."

In Strasbourg many "chirps" were part of a procession of more than 500 people.

In Lille also the parade had an air of technoparade, under heavy falling snow.

In the procession, Lucile Fremaux, supervisor in high school, judges that "with the environment which is hyper anxiety-provoking and the laws that the government leaves us, it becomes unlivable".

Timothée Carpentier, educator, complains that there is "more and more control over people, not just delinquents, everyone can be stuck".

“I am demonstrating against this regime which is showing itself to be more and more radical.

It's a funny dictatorship, we wonder where we are going with this security law ... If this is the country of human rights and freedom, I am ashamed to be French!

», Reports François, yellow vest on his back, in the Parisian demonstration.

Nearly 80 rallies "for the right to information, against police violence, for the freedom to demonstrate and against mass surveillance" have taken place in the country.

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