A young woman was detained for four hours in police custody in Toulouse to respond to a banner outside her home, proclaiming "Macronavirus, when is the end?". That's what his lawyer and the local NPA chapter said on Friday. This case came after other cases since the beginning of April of police visits to Paris, Marseille and Caen, with confined residents who had displayed banners with political overtones, according to Mediapart.
"Political Police"
In Toulouse, police intervened on April 21 in a pavilion, whose garden wall had been covered with a "Macronavirus" banner, repeating the legend of a caricature published in January by Charlie Hebdo, according to Me Claire Dujardin and the Postcode. The residents complied with the request to drop out, but the police returned the next day to give a summons to one of them who agreed to identify himself.
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The young woman spent four hours in police custody on April 23, on the grounds of "contempt", only to be released without immediate action, according to Me Dujardin. "The offense is not made up, we are rather on intelligence, on the political police" in "a context where we can no longer demonstrate," said Mr. Dujardin.
Other interventions identified
The NPA-31 for its part was moved by "a serious case of questioning of the freedom of expression", in a motion supported in particular by the local sections of the CGT, the PCF, EELV and LDH. A police source also confirmed that in Paris, as indicated by Mediapart, the police intervened on April 14 with a couple for a banner "Macron we are waiting for you at the exit", deemed to have a "somewhat threatening to the Head of State ". "There was a discussion. There was no verbalization. The banner was removed," said the source.
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Mediapart also reports on five police interventions in a Marseille squat - two of which were confirmed by the prefecture - and two summonses from residents, for a banner "Do you want to know if you have corona? Spit on a citizen and wait for his results" . Finally in Caen, according to the information site, the municipal police intervened with residents to discuss, but without requesting the removal of their banner.