At the arrival of the Parisian demonstration of January 16, place de la Bastille.

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MARTIN BUREAU / AFP

An organization for the defense of electronic music this Sunday accused the police of violence during the demonstration in Paris against the proposed “global security” law the day before, when preventing musicians from playing.

The controversy concerns vehicles with sound that were to broadcast electronic music.

The police headquarters affirms that they were not declared, and therefore had no place in the procession, while the organizers believe that they have done everything to prevent their arrival.

Saturday during the demonstration, the prefecture posted on Twitter a copy of "the only statement received which only mentions a sound truck at the end of the demonstration".

Then the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin congratulated the police for having "prevented the holding of a rave party near the demonstration".

But according to a statement from the "organizers of the procession of electronic music for a festive defense of global freedoms", "the prefecture had been warned directly by the organization that other tanks than union vehicles were going to join the demonstration".

The sound systems disassembled

At the time when the demonstration was preparing Saturday at midday, place Félix-Eboué (XIIth century), these vehicles "resulting from the world of the electronic culture were put directly away from the demonstration and dispersed in the adjacent avenues" , they said.

"While an acoustic concert took place calmly on the last truck, the time to dismantle the sound systems, the police charged violently", continued the organizers.

They accused a police officer of being "on the truck where the concert was taking place at the time of the charge to hit the musicians and break the musical instruments", joined by others who distributed "punches. , foot, baton ”.

Saturday evening, Gérald Darmanin reported 24 arrests in Paris, and “12 injured police and gendarmes” throughout France.

The world of electronic music considers that it is particularly targeted by an abusive police repression, which according to it the proposed “global security” law will worsen.

Society

34,000 demonstrators against the “global security” law in France according to the police, 200,000 according to the organizers

Miscellaneous

Nine people arrested on the sidelines of the demonstration against the "global security" law in Marseille

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