"Justice for the victims of anti-white racism". On the sidelines of the demonstration against racism and police violence, organized on Saturday afternoon in Paris, activists of the extreme right-wing group Génération Identitaire displayed a banner displaying this slogan on rooftops overlooking Place de la République. Removed for the first time, it was displayed again. Other demonstrators then joined them on the roofs and blows were exchanged, noted our journalist on the spot.
Protesters blocked Place de la République
These clashes took place while the thousands of demonstrators gathered in the capital were blocked by the police at the starting point of the procession, the Place de la République, which they planned to leave at 2:30 p.m. to march until the Opera. "People who wish can leave the place by all axes except the boulevard Saint-Martin and (de) rue du Temple," tweeted at 15:30 the Paris Prefecture of Police.
The #manifestation remains static on the Place de la # République.
Shops and establishments in other sectors may reopen. pic.twitter.com/So9Sg1f2YW
In a press release on Friday, the Prefect of Police recalled that gatherings of more than 10 people were prohibited, but he announced that he had asked to close businesses on the way to the demonstration. These were able to reopen on Saturday afternoon, according to the Police Prefecture, the procession remaining "static".
A rally organized at the call of the Adama Traoré committee
The rally is organized at the call of the Adama Traoré committee, a young black man who died in July 2016 after his arrest by gendarmes in the Paris region. Assa Traoré, the young man's sister and committee figure, called to march to "denounce the denial of justice, to denounce social, racial, police violence", again demanding the indictment of the gendarmes implicated in the arrest of his brother.