Across the country, the ongoing mobilization against the "comprehensive security" law converges, Saturday, December 5, with that planned against precariousness, maintaining pressure on the executive.

In all, nearly 90 gatherings are announced by the organizers in the cities, large and medium, of France.

In Paris, the event will leave at 2 p.m. from Porte des Lilas towards Place de la République.

A first gathering took place in the morning, in front of the Paris police headquarters.

About fifty people, mostly "yellow vests", demanded, around 10:30 am, an increase in purchasing power and the dismissal of Emmanuel Macron.

"We will fight every week to have this law withdrawn"

Jean Christian Valentin, member of the GJ Paris and co-organizer of the gathering, described the global security law as "villainous".

"We will fight every week for this law to be withdrawn," he said.

Saturday, November 28, the "marches" organized by the "coordination # StopLoiS SécuritéGlobale", a collective of multiple unions and associations, including several organizations of journalists, strongly mobilized in the country.

Between 133,000 people according to the Ministry of the Interior and 500,000 according to the organizers.

Faced with this anger, the government has so far announced only one concession: the rewriting of article 24, the most controversial, framing the image of the police.

The coordination demands its outright withdrawal (with articles 21 and 22 of the text), and contests the "new national law enforcement plan (SNMO)" which limits media coverage of the demonstrations.

Accused of increasing the "liberticidal" measures, Emmanuel Macron wanted to speak directly to young people, very present during the latest demonstrations, in an interview with the online media Brut.

"I cannot allow it to be said that freedoms are being reduced in France," said the President of the Republic.

"That's a big lie. We're not Hungary or Turkey."             

The fear of further violent outbursts

Emmanuel Macron also explained that he wanted to face the issue of facial checks.

He promised the launch in January of a national platform for reporting discrimination, run by the state, the Defender of Rights and associations.

At the same time, pedestrian cameras for police officers will be generalized.

Words that made the main unions of peacekeepers jump (Alliance, SGP Unit and Unsa-Police) who called on Saturday to stop identity checks.

Incidents had occurred in particular on November 28 during major rallies against the "global security" law.

Some cities therefore fear further violent outbursts.

In Bordeaux and Montpellier, the prefects have thus banned any procession in the hypercentre.

In Lyon, the event is only authorized on the left bank of the Rhône. 

The "freedom marches" on Saturday were renamed "freedoms and justice", because they will often be held "in convergence with the actions carried out within the framework of the national day against unemployment and precariousness". 

With AFP

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