Opponents of the "comprehensive security" bill are mobilizing again on Saturday January 16 throughout France.

Nearly 80 rallies "for the right to information, against police violence, for the freedom to demonstrate and against mass surveillance" are planned, at the call of the coordination of associations and unions mobilized against this text, which restricts in particular the dissemination of images of the police. 

Opponents of article 24 and reunited party 

They will be joined in many cities (Paris, Bordeaux, Lille, Nantes, Rennes ...) by the "chokers" of the "free parties" movement.

This is rarely united, but this time it makes a common front "for the right to culture" and against "disproportionate repression" after the rave party in Lieuron (Ille-et-Vilaine) which brought together 2,400 people at the Nouvel year. 

Despite "an unprecedented mobilization for the defense of freedoms, the government (us) opposed an end of inadmissibility", regrets, in its call to demonstrate, the coordination. 

Tomorrow January 16, we will denounce the #SecurityGlobale offensive in the streets.

We will scan the sky against the drones.



We will parade in particular alongside @ nojoparis2024, the govt.

having set 2024 as the horizon for its dystopian project.



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- La Quadrature du Net (@laquadrature) January 15, 2021

This brings together associations such as the Human Rights League and Amnesty, as well as many unions and associations, including journalists and directors.  

The bill, already passed at first reading in the National Assembly, must be examined in March in the Senate.

"The stakes are (...) major. They relate to the very respect for the rule of law" and the control of the authorities "by citizens, Parliament, justice and the press", underline the associations, which add that "population surveillance measures must remain the exception". 

They still require the withdrawal of several provisions, starting with article 24, which penalizes the malicious dissemination of images of police officers.  

The collective, which asks to be received by President Emmanuel Macron, also targets articles 21 and 22 on the use of pedestrian cameras and drones by the police, and of the "new national plan for the maintenance of 'order "(SNMO), regularly invoked by the police to limit media coverage of the demonstrations. 

"Wind of anger" 

In Paris, the event will leave at 2:00 p.m. from Place Daumesnil to join that of the Bastille.

Gatherings will also take place in Rennes, Nantes, Caen, Rouen and Le Havre, as well as in Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand or Dijon, in particular.  

"It is the resumption of the fight", notes Gérald Le Corre, one of the persons in charge of the CGT in Seine-Maritime, who declares to feel coming a "wind of anger" with the extension of the curfew to 6:00 p.m. and because " the only freedoms "granted are" to the economy. 

"The government (takes) measures against freedom in a social and economic context which is deteriorating", denounces Stéphane Obé, departmental secretary of the CGT Gironde. 

The bill has been strongly criticized in France by the Defender of Rights and the National Consultative Commission on Human Rights, and abroad by special rapporteurs of the United Nations and the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council. from Europe. 

The mobilization against the "global security" bill, launched on November 17, gave rise to several days of demonstrations, often joined by "yellow vests".

The largest, on November 28, brought together 500,000 people in the country according to the coordination, 133,000 according to the government. 

Several, in Paris in particular, were punctuated by clashes with the police.

During the mobilization of December 12, the government, which denounces the acts of "thugs", in particular arrested 150 demonstrators, some of whom have since filed a complaint against the prefect of police Didier Lallement for "arbitrary arrest".

A "large gathering" is already planned for Saturday January 30 in Paris. 

With AFP   

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