"Calls to demonstrate at 5 p.m. on the Esplanade du Champ de Mars in Paris, on Saturday, June 6, 2020, were launched on social networks on the theme of 'police violence', without any prior declaration to the prefecture of Police, "wrote the prefect of police in a statement on Saturday. 

The Paris police prefect Didier Lallement has banned rallies organized on Saturday against police violence on the Champ de Mars esplanade, after having proscribed other actions planned elsewhere in the capital due to the health crisis.

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"Calls to demonstrate at 5 p.m. on the Esplanade du Champ de Mars in Paris, on Saturday, June 6, 2020, were launched on social networks on the theme of 'police violence', without any prior declaration to the prefecture of Police "(PP), wrote the prefect in a press release. "These gatherings, which can 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", continues the press release. 

"A photo in front of the Eiffel Tower"

Families of victims of police violence united in a group invited to "take a walk on the Champ-de-Mars, respecting barrier gestures, to take a photo in front of the Eiffel Tower" with the hashtags #LaisseNousRespirer, #JusticePourToutesLesVictimes and #No justice, no peace.

The organizers call for "amplifying the international movement of solidarity against the impunity of the police", while rallies multiply after the death in the United States of George Floyd, a 46 year old black man asphyxiated by a police officer. The prefect of police had already banned Friday morning two rallies scheduled for Saturday from 3:00 p.m. in front of the US Embassy in tribute to George Floyd, and which were maintained by their organizers.

Tuesday, a demonstration prohibited by the prefect of police gathered in Paris at least 20,000 people at the call of the family support committee of Adama Traoré, a young black man who died in 2016 after an arrest by gendarmes.