Mass demonstrations against racism in the world, clashes in certain cities

From the United Kingdom to Australia, via France and Tunisia, the demonstrators defied the calls of the authorities to stay at home because of the health crisis to beat the pavement, Saturday June 6, and express their ras- the bowl of racism and police brutality after the death of the American black George Floyd, asphyxiated under the knee of a white policeman. 

After several hours of peaceful assembly, incidents broke out at the end of the day near Downing Street in central London. Projectiles like bottles were launched on the police who loaded on horseback in an attempt to disperse the demonstrators.   

#ART The artist #Banksy posted a new drawing on Instagram, in response to the death of #George _Floyd. In this drawing, we can see a frame containing the photo of a black man, posed next to a candle whose flame is burning the American flag. pic.twitter.com/RyayiuDGw0

"The UK is not innocent"

Gathered before near the nearby Parliament, thousands of people, their faces often covered with a mask, but without necessarily respecting the rules of distancing, had held up signs bearing the slogan "Black Lives Matter" (The life of blacks counts) . 

"The United Kingdom is not innocent," the demonstrators denounced, beating drums. They also observed a minute of silence, kneeling and fists raised, before heading for some to the US Embassy, ​​greeted by the horns of motorists. 

As in the British capital, there were thousands in Manchester (North West) to "put an end to racism", another "pandemic".  

Inspired by the tragic event, the famous street artist Banksy unveiled on Instagram a new work, where we see a candle watching alongside a photo of a black person setting fire to the American flag. "People of color are abandoned by the system. The white system," he laments. 

Reposted from #Banksy pic.twitter.com/Yju3BDLiZ8

In France, the memory of Adama Traoré

In Australia, the first country to open the international ball of indignation on Saturday, thousands of people demonstrated across the country, holding up banners "I can't breathe", in reference to the complaint made by George Floyd, whose his neck was obstructed for almost nine minutes by the knee of the police officer who arrested him for a minor crime.  

For the organizers, this affair finds many echoes in their country: they also wanted to denounce the very high imprisonment rate among the Aborigines, and the deaths - more than 400 in the last thirty years - of members of this community while they were detained by the police. 

In France, where the American drama rekindled the memory of Adama Traoré, a young black man who died in 2016 after an arrest by the gendarmes, actions which brought together a total of more than 23,000 people according to the police were organized in several cities to denounce the "racism" and "impunity" which would reign within the police.  

In Metz, the end of the demonstration was marked by incidents and the prosecutor of this eastern city was slightly injured.  

In Paris, despite the authorities' ban, several thousand people demanded "Justice for all" near the American embassy, ​​from which they were kept apart by the police forces deployed en masse. 

Eight minutes of silence

In Germany, tens of thousands of demonstrators marched across the country in the afternoon. The players of Bayern Munich, the championship leader, also showed their solidarity by warming up on Saturday with a t-shirt bearing the inscription "Red card against racism - BlackLiveMatters", before the Bundesliga match against Leverkusen. 

In the central square of Turin (North of Italy), young demonstrators observed eight minutes of silence while in Tunis, around 200 people claimed to be able to "breathe" in the face of racism, which "stifles" in this country where migrants from sub-Saharan Africa often claim to be victims of verbal and physical assault.  

In Warsaw, a thousand people, often young and dressed in black, were joined by the left candidate for the Polish presidential election, Robert Biedron, with their faces masked. 

In Canada, several thousand people demonstrated in Toronto for the second day in a row. Demonstrations also took place in other Canadian cities, including Saint-Jean de Terre Neuve. A large-scale event is scheduled for Sunday in Montreal.  

 With AFP 

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