Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credit: THOMAS SAMSON / AFP 5:25 p.m., February 3, 2024
This Saturday, in Paris, hundreds of people demonstrated to demand the repeal of the immigration law. They denounce in particular its "xenophobic" character despite the 35 articles of the text challenged by the Constitutional Council. The procession left from Place de la République to reach Place Gambetta.
Several hundred people demonstrated in Paris on Saturday to demand the repeal of the immigration law, denouncing its "xenophobic" character despite the 35 articles of the text rebutted by the Constitutional Council, noted an AFP journalist. “Immigration, Darmanin will not lay down the law”, “racism, colonialism, fascism, we don’t want this society”, could we read on the signs of the procession that left the Place de la République to join the Place Gambetta, at the call of collectives of undocumented immigrants and unions in particular.
“Global withdrawal”
“We are happy that the Constitutional Council has sanctioned a certain number of measures but it is the law as a whole which seems bad to us so we are asking for its overall withdrawal,” Emmanuelle Jollet, co-responsible, told AFP. FSU Ile-de-France. “We are not giving up, because it is a fundamental question of values,” she added, while the law, many of which were added by the right during its passage through Parliament were censored by the Wise Men, was promulgated on January 27.
“We have been fighting for a year against this racist and xenophobic law, we will continue to denounce and fight it,” added Cybèle David, Solidaires national secretary. “What worries us most is the question of repression and criminalization of foreigners who are, through this law, perceived as a so-called danger while foreign people who live on the territory participate in social life and economic and contribute enormously to our society,” she said.
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For Mariama Sidibe, spokesperson for the coordination of undocumented immigrants (CSP) 75, present at the head of the procession, "we are asking for humanity, we are asking for our rights, we are workers, we are workers, we are not thugs or terrorists. “If we have to come and demonstrate every week, we will,” she said. Organized at the call of the coordination of undocumented immigrants and the Solidarity March, the procession marched alongside another procession of support in Gaza demanding an end to Israeli bombings on the civilian population.