The prefect of police, Didier Lallement - SIPA PRESS

While a rally and a demonstration of caregivers are to be held in Paris on Tuesday, between the Ministry of Health and the National Assembly, the Paris police prefect, Didier Lallement authorized this demonstration on the public highway, a- he announced in a statement on Monday evening.

"The declarants are committed"

"Today, the police headquarters have received a declaration to demonstrate, in Paris, for June 16, 2020 from 2:30 p.m., at the corner of avenue de Ségur and boulevard Garibaldi , until 6 p.m., arrival and dispersal time, at the corner of rue Constantine and rue de l'Université ", he notes before adding:" In accordance with the prescriptions of the decrees of May 31 and June 14, 2020, the declarants undertook that the conditions of organization of this event allow a physical distance of one meter between each participant and, if it is impossible to guarantee this distance, to ask the participants to wear a protective mask and wash their hands regularly, bringing hydro-alcoholic gel if there is no water point ”.

"It is up to the organizers to make known by any means the rules which must be observed by the participants in this event", he concludes.

At the beginning of the month, the Paris police headquarters had prohibited the holding of two rallies planned in front of the United States embassy, ​​in tribute to George Floyd, a 46-year-old black American who was asphyxiated by a white police officer. As for the assembly last Saturday against racism and police violence, at the call of the Adama Traoré collective, the demonstrators had been blocked and forced to remain static on the Place de la République.

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  • Demonstration
  • Prefecture
  • Police
  • Gathering
  • Paris