Gérald Darmanin reacts after the controversy over the authorization of an ultra-right demonstration in the streets of Paris. The Minister of the Interior announced on Tuesday, May 9, three days after the parade, that he had asked the prefects to ban all demonstrations of this type in the future.
In front of the deputies, Gérald Darmanin deemed, like Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne before him, "unacceptable" this demonstration of nearly 600 activists, the majority of whom had their faces hidden, who wore Celtic crosses.
"I have given instructions to the prefects" when "any ultra-right or far-right activist or any association or collective, in Paris as everywhere on the territory, will file (declarations of) demonstrations (similar to that of Saturday in Paris)" that they take "prohibition orders," said the Minister of the Interior.
"We will let the courts decide whether the case law will allow these demonstrations to be held," he added.
Masked faces, Celtic crosses and GUD slogans
Nearly 600 activists of the May 9 Committee, according to the authorities, demonstrated Saturday in Paris to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the death of a far-right activist, Sébastien Deyzieu, who died accidentally in 1994.
These demonstrators, dressed in black and often masked, displayed black flags marked with the Celtic cross and chanted, at the end of the rally, "Europe youth revolution", the slogan of the GUD (Group of Union Defense), noted an AFP journalist.
The prefect of police of Paris, Laurent Nuñez, announced that he had seized the Paris prosecutor of the facts of concealment of faces by the demonstrators, which constitutes an offense.
With AFP
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