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The rallies against the proposed law "Global security", fought since November by the defenders of public freedoms and journalists' unions, did not fill up Saturday across France.

"The mobilization is complicated with the Covid but for all that many believe that it is a law of liberticide", assured AFP Dominique Besson-Milord, departmental secretary of the CGT, in Rennes, where 800 people are are gathered, depending on the prefecture.

"We know that after a while, there are fewer people," for his part analyzed Paul Garrigues, co-president of the League of Human Rights (LDH) of Dijon, in the middle of a few hundred of demonstrators.

"This is the 10th event, and people are not giving up, it is already that", wanted to retain Jean Latasse, activist of Amnesty International in Strasbourg, where 300 people were present according to the police.

“The most important thing is to show our presence.

Even if there are not many, we must show that we are there, ”added Frédéric, who demonstrated in Lille with 800 people, according to the prefecture.

Too motley slogans

In the viewfinder of the demonstrators, the text on "Global security" presented this fall, and in particular its article 24 which penalizes the malicious dissemination of images of members of the police.

A measure defended by the government for which it aims to protect police officers who are victims of calls to hatred and murder on social networks, but which would prevent, according to its detractors from filming the police in intervention and documenting the violence policewomen.

The collective "# StopLoiSafeGlobale" was launched by journalists' unions and the Human Rights League.

He is supported by representatives of the world of culture, put to the test by the Covid pandemic, and by theaters followers of techno “free parties”, who consider themselves targeted by an abusive police repression after the Lieuron rave ( Ille-et-Vilaine) at New Year.

"Today is the pinnacle of the convergence of struggles: global security law, filing, police violence, the world of culture and neglected and suffering students, penalties too high on the world of the free party", said exclaimed Marion, member of the Maskarade group of teufeurs and participant of the rally in Paris.

But in Bordeaux, the merger of two separate gatherings, the one against Global Security and the more important one for free parties, left some participants perplexed, who wondered alongside whom exactly they were demonstrating.

Mobilization until March

In the capital, where "yellow vests" from Place de la Nation joined the movement Place de la République, the demonstrators numbered a few thousand at the height of the afternoon.

Around 5 p.m., one hour before the curfew imposed by the Covid, clashes broke out between about fifty young people, mainly from the ultra-left movement, and the police, while the organizers had announced the dispersal.

After throwing projectiles, the police used water cannons.

The square was finally evacuated around 5:30 p.m.

"We are on a maintenance of the mobilization until March when the text is passed before the Senate," assured Vincent Lanier, secretary general of the National Union of Journalists (SNJ).

The collective "# StopLoiS SécuritéGlobale" also targets articles 21 and 22, on the use of pedestrian cameras and drones by the police.

He is also opposed to the "new national plan for maintaining order" (SNMO), regularly invoked by the police to limit media coverage of the demonstrations.

"It's a whole, it's a desire to control the images," said Vincent Lanier.

Since the start of the examination of the bill, the number of demonstrators, who often include "yellow vests", has varied from month to month.

The most important day of mobilization, November 28, had gathered 500,000 people in the country according to the coordination, 133,000 according to the government.

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