The procession will leave the Gare du Nord at 13h. A demonstration against Islamophobia is organized Sunday, November 10 in Paris, at the call of several personalities and organizations. Among them, the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA), the Collective against Islamophobia in France want to denounce anti-Muslim acts.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon will also join the procession. "I observe that starting from a disagreement on a word, some people actually refuse to Muslims the right to be defended by people who are not Muslims and who want to stop the current mood against them", estimated the leader of the Rogue.

Indeed, at the beginning, the message was to say "STOP Islamophobia", the "growing stigmatization" of Muslims, victims of "discrimination" and "aggression" including "the attack against the mosque of Bayonne (...) is the most recent event ".

However, since the call to protest launched on November 1 in the newspaper Libération, against a backdrop of revived debate on the wearing of the veil and secularism. The political class is torn by participation in this rally, dividing the left and provoking strong criticism from the National Rally (RN) for whom it is an alliance with the "Islamists".

"Will to sabotage"

The very notion of "Islamophobia" as well as the identity of certain signatories of the call led some of the left not to associate with it, or to relativize their initial support, like the MEP Yannick Jadot (EELV) and MP François Ruffin (LFI).

For its part, the Communist Party (PCF) recalled the "extreme urgency to say stop" to Islamophobia, despite the reservations of its national secretary Fabien Roussel, uncomfortable with the slogan.

The President of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen believes that "all those who will go to this event will be hand in hand with the Islamists, that is to say those who develop in our country a totalitarian ideology that aims to fight the laws of the French Republic ".

"There is a desire to sabotage the event, obviously," reacts the councilor left in Saint-Denis, Madjid Messaoudene, one of the initiators of the call.

"From the platform, we face an alliance of a surprising nature, between the PS, the RN, or even the government, who are all up against an anti-racist march, it's amazing", rebels the elected to AFP.

The elected representative thinks, however, that "there will be a lot of people" to this "progressive march" because "there is a context where people need to say that is enough".

A call was also launched for a demonstration in Toulouse.

With AFP