France: the administrative court suspends the ban on a conference of the Action française

Action française activist under the statue of Joan of Arc, May 10, 2015. AP - Michel Euler

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The Administrative Court of Paris suspended this Saturday, May 13, an order of the prefecture of police prohibiting the holding of a symposium organized in the afternoon by the royalist movement Action française, classified to the extreme right. The decision was forwarded to Agence France-Presse.

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The police prefecture told AFP it "took note" of this decision, in which the court did not explain its motivations. It had published this decree on Friday, after a circular from the Minister of the Interior to ban several "demonstrations and gatherings of the ultra-right", following the controversy related to the demonstration in Paris on May 6 of ultra-right activists mostly with their faces hidden and wearing Celtic crosses. "Our conference will take place! First victory for this great weekend, "responded the Action française on Twitter.

This symposium of the organization, entitled "The France in danger", is scheduled for 14:30 (12:30 GMT) in the twelfth arrondissement of Paris. The organization had applied to the administrative courts for an interim relief procedure, an urgent procedure when the complainant considered that there had been a "serious and manifestly unlawful infringement" of a fundamental freedom on the part of a State service.

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🔴victory for this great weekend, the administrative court has just broken the ban on our conference taken by the prefect of police!

We are waiting for you at the Espace Charenton from 14:30 pm!#Jeanne2023... pic.twitter.com/wbxfuKWxZB

— Action Française (@actionfrancaise) May 13, 2023

Prohibition by the prefecture of police

The police prefecture has banned a total of six gatherings planned for this weekend in Paris on the basis of the instruction given Tuesday to the prefects by Gerald Darmanin, including five at the call of movements classified to the far right, arguing a risk of disturbance to public order. Among them is another event at the initiative of the Action française, a demonstration in tribute to Joan of Arc convened Sunday morning from the Place de l'Opéra (IXth arr.). The organization announced that it had also filed a summary release with the Paris Administrative Court against this ban.

A rally in front of the statue of Joan of Arc declared by the movement "The Nationalists" of Yvan Benedetti, a figure of the extreme right, which was to take place at the same time as the demonstration of the Action française, was also banned, as well as a march of the military association "Place d'armes".

A sixth demonstration, of yellow vests, which was to take the same route as that of the soldiers of "Place d'armes", was also banned by the prefect of police.

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With AFP)

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