A police officer patrols the Trocadéro (illustrative image) -

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They were 5,000 according to the organizers, between 4,000 and 6,000, according to the Paris police headquarters.

Several thousand people gathered on the Place du Trocadéro in Paris this Sunday in a "march for life" against abortion.

“The message is to remember that abortion is above all violence against women.

We often have the habit of presenting abortion as a right ", but it is" a right to be gagged ", declared Aliette Espieux, spokesperson for this march, organized almost every year since 2005.

Framed by an important device of the police, the demonstrators gathered in front of a platform where a banner proclaimed "abortion: stop the culture of waste", in front of the square of the human rights.

They protest in particular against two legislative texts which contain “scandalous” provisions, according to the president of the “march for life”, Nicolas Tardy-Joubert, among which the bioethics law which includes in particular the PMA for all.

Virtual mobilization on Zoom

They are also protesting against the bill extending the time limit for abortion from 12 to 14 weeks, tabled by MP Albane Gaillot (ex-EDS) and voted on at first reading in the National Assembly with the broad support of LREM and the left. .

This text must be examined this week in the Senate, with little chance of success.

Due to the health situation, the rally was coupled with a virtual mobilization on Zoom - followed according to the organizers by 10,000 people.

Among the demonstrators, Paul, 27, came with his baby in a stroller for "the defense of life", a message relayed by other participants.

Not far from there, an 81-year-old woman explains that she is “against abortion, against PMA.

In the past, we went to prison for abortion, now we are reimbursed by the Social Security, do you find that normal? ”She launches.

At the end of the afternoon, demonstrators dressed in trash bags displayed infant masks with the message "aborted baby = human in the trash".

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