A total of forty-five people were taken into police custody on Saturday on the sidelines of the demonstration banned in Paris in support of the Palestinians, we learned this Sunday from the Paris prosecutor's office.

These people were arrested in particular on suspicion of "participation in a group formed for violence", "participation in a gathering after warning", "violence against the police" or for contempt.

Between 2,500 to 3,500 people according to the authorities -4,500 to 5,000 according to the organizers-, had gathered Saturday in small groups in the district of Barbès (18th arrondissement), causing sometimes tense face-to-face between demonstrators and forces of the order in the north of Paris.

Nearly 370 people fined

A massive police deployment - 4,200 police and gendarmes mobilized with instructions for “immediate” dispersal - had prevented the demonstrators, who planned to go to Bastille, from deploying a procession.

A total of 367 people were fined in the capital, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday evening.

The ban on the gathering, taken Thursday by the Paris police prefect, Didier Lallement, at the request of the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, for “risk of disturbances”, had been confirmed Friday by the administrative justice.

Gatherings throughout France

In total, the demonstrations, everywhere in France, brought together some 22,000 people according to the Ministry of the Interior.

They intervened against a backdrop of military escalation unprecedented since 2014 between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas, in and around the Gaza Strip, and violence in mixed Arab and Jewish Israeli towns.

Since the start of this new round of violence on May 10, 174 Palestinians have died, including 47 children, and 1,200 have been injured, according to a latest Palestinian report.

In Israel, ten people were killed, including a child, and 282 injured, in Palestinian rocket fire.

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