The Minister of the Interior was questioned Tuesday in the National Assembly on the response of the authorities to the demonstration which brought together several hundred far-right activists on Saturday in the streets of the capital.
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“What happened in the streets of Paris is unacceptable.” Questioned at the National Assembly on Tuesday May 9, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin announced that he had asked the prefects to ban all demonstrations of the ultra-right in the future, after the controversy aroused by that of the Committee of May 9 Saturday in Paris, which had not been banned. For her part, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said to herself “shocked” by the images of this mobilization. “I gave 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”informed Gérald Darmanin.
“We will let the courts judge whether case law will allow these demonstrations to be held”, he added. Saturday’s mobilization was organized to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the death of far-right activist Sébastien Deyzieu, who died accidentally in 1994. About 600 demonstrators, dressed in black and often masked, displayed black flags marked with the Celtic cross. They chanted, at the end of the rally, “Europe youth revolution”, the slogan of the GUD (Groupe d’union defense). The Paris police chief, Laurent Nuñez, announced on Monday evening that he had seized the Paris prosecutor of the facts of concealment of the faces of the demonstrators, which constitutes an offense.
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