Centenary of the Chinese Communist Party: Hong Kong placed under high security
A policeman on duty blocks the entrance to Hong Kong's Victoria Park, which was closed to the public on July 1, 2021. AP - Kin Cheung
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In Hong Kong, the traditional July 1 march, which each year marks the anniversary of the 1997 handover, has been banned again, officially for health reasons when there are almost no more cases of Covid-19. in the city, but probably more so as not to disturb the anniversary of the CCP which takes place in Beijing with great fanfare and does not arouse any interest in Hong Kong.
The authorities have placed the city under high security.
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With our correspondent in Hong Kong,
Florence de Changy
In total, 10,000 police officers, or nearly one in three Hong Kong police officers, have been deployed across the territory, as a preventive measure, as it is rather an unusual calm that reigns in the city.
In Causeway Bay, a very commercial district, the police were on their toes.
Victoria Park was closed to access.
Many passers-by were searched.
The police blocked a shopping center and three students who wanted to set up a stand in the street to distribute leaflets were arrested by the police.
Attorney Hangtong Chow, who had previously been preemptively arrested on the morning of June 4 because she had indicated her intention to personally mark the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre despite the ban, was again stopped on Wednesday June 30 as a preventive measure.
All this illustrates the near paranoia shown by the police and the authorities in the face of the slightest gesture that would anger or hamper the sacrosanct
"national security"
.
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