China News Agency, Paris, June 13 (Reporter Li Yang) More than 10,000 people in the French capital Paris continued to demonstrate on the 13th local time to protest racial discrimination and police violence. Because of the crowds of demonstrations on the day and the fact that many people did not wear masks, the prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic faced great challenges.
A reporter from China News Agency saw at the scene that tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered at the Place de la République in the center of Paris starting at 2 pm that day. Many people hold high placards such as "The life of a black man is also a life" and "There is no justice without peace". A placard in the hands of young demonstrators wrote that they hope to become the "last generation" who protests against racial discrimination.
A group of far-right radicals provoked demonstrators. They climbed up a building overlooking the demonstrators in Republic Square, and put up banners to protest against "anti-white racism." Someone in the building immediately tore off part of the banner, causing applause from the demonstrators. The police arrested 12 far-right militants.
Due to the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, France currently bans more than 10 people from gathering. But in France last weekend, 20,000 people took to the streets to protest against racial discrimination. French Minister of the Interior Castane earlier stated that the "global sentiment" against racial discrimination exceeds the legal rules, suggesting that the authorities will have some tolerance for demonstrations and protests.
The demonstrations on that day were still triggered by the Freud incident in the United States. The white police in Minneapolis, USA, continued to press on his neck with his knee when he arrested the African-American man Freud on May 25. Freud died and four police officers involved were subsequently charged. At the same time, the "Adama case" in France was also concerned by some demonstrators.
The reporter noted that the Paris police actually acquiesced tens of thousands of demonstrators to conduct a static rally for several hours in Place de la République. However, the police refused to let the demonstrators plan to march from the Place de la République to the Paris Opera House, and blocked many roads leading to the Paris Opera House, while demanding that the demonstrators leave the square in an orderly manner.
At around 5 pm, the police began to disperse the demonstrators in the Republic Square, and there were some small-scale clashes with the demonstrators. The riot police burst into the center of the square to drive the demonstrators and used tear gas. By 7 pm, most of the demonstrators left the Place de la République, and the demonstrations in Paris came to an end.
The Paris police said that 15,000 people participated in the demonstrations in Paris, and as of 7 pm the police arrested a total of 26 people. Castane expressed firm support for the police's law enforcement actions during the demonstrations and protests that night, and believed that the police showed professionalism.
On the 13th, 526 new cases of new pneumonia were confirmed in France, which is still the European country with more new cases diagnosed in a single day. Due to the recent demonstrations and protests in France, some French medical experts expressed concern about the prospects of epidemic prevention and control, and pointed out that such crowd gathering activities are likely to cause aggregate infection.
French President Macron will deliver a national speech again on the evening of the 14th. The outside world predicts that his speech will involve related issues against racial discrimination, and may make further deployment on the prevention and control of the epidemic situation and how to continue to "unblock". (Finish)