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DThousands of people marched on Sunday to protest the crackdown on demonstrations in Iran.
It was there second consecutive demonstration in two days in Paris to denounce the death in detention of Mahsa Amini, 22, arrested in Tehran on September 13 by the morality police for “wearing inappropriate clothes”. Thousands of people marched on Sunday, September 25, to protest against the repression of demonstrations in Iran and the French police used tear gas to prevent them from reaching the embassy of the Islamic Republic, according to AFP journalists .
The participants criticized French President Emmanuel Macron in particular for shaking hands with his Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raïsi, during their meeting on September 20 on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. This concerned in particular a revival of the international agreement on the nuclear program of Tehran.
Leaving from the Place du Trocadéro, the Parisian procession headed for the Iranian Embassy to the sound of slogans such as “woman, life, freedom!”echoing those of the demonstrators in Iran, or even “France, silence is enough”. Approaching the embassy, near the headquarters of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (Cese), the police repeatedly used tear gas.
The Paris police headquarters reported “4,000 people” gathered at Place d’Iéna. On several occasions, groups have tried to break through the roadblock set up by the security forces, who have resorted to “intermediate means of intervention” (tear gas) to repel them, according to the police headquarters. A person was arrested for “contempt and rebellion” and a policeman was slightly injured, added the prefecture.