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Around 3,000 people gathered at Place de la République in Paris on Thursday October 12, despite the ban on gatherings. The demonstrators had come to defend the rights of Palestinians, and particularly Gazans, to dignified living conditions.
“We are all Palestinians“, chanted thousands of demonstrators in Paris on Thursday, October 12, who demanded decent living conditions for the inhabitants of Gaza. A demonstrator defends their “right to existence, the right to water, to electricity, to a normal life“, while another explains that “it’s the only thing we can do, concretely, here, now, so we might as well do it“.
A “totally unfair” gathering ban for demonstrators
Despite the ban on the gathering, deemed likely to create disturbances to public order by the Ministry of the Interior, 3,000 people gathered. A man mentions a ban “totally unfair“. The police present at Place de la République quickly dispersed the demonstrators using water jets and tear gas. 10 people were arrested, according to figures reported by the police headquarters.