The Paris Prefecture of Police prohibits the holding of two rallies planned for Saturday in front of the United States embassy, in tribute to George Floyd, a 46-year-old black American asphyxiated by a white policeman, she said in a Friday communicated.
"Two plans for static rallies in front of the US Embassy have been declared for Saturday, June 6, 2020," writes the Prefecture of Police (PP).
"The state of health emergency"
"These gatherings, likely to rally many people, are not authorized by the decree of May 31, 2020 relating to the state of health emergency which prohibits any gathering, in the public space, of more than ten people", is -He specifies.
The press release also alludes to the "incidents and violence" which took place on the sidelines of the prohibited demonstration on June 2. This rally, organized at the call of the family support committee of Adama Traoré, a 24-year-old black man who died in 2016 after his arrest by the gendarmes, brought together 20,000 people before the Paris Tribunal de Grande Instance.
"The peaceful Parisian demonstration (...) is maintained," reacted on Facebook the African Black Defense League, organizer of the rally. "Demonstrating is an inalienable right when violence, negrophobia and racism (...) have become norms," she adds.
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