Justice suspends the ban on a symposium of Action française scheduled for this afternoon in Paris

The administrative court has suspended the ban on a conference of Action française scheduled for Saturday, May 13 in Paris. The far-right group rejoiced over the social networks of this “victoire”giving an appointment at 2.30 p.m. for this meeting on the theme of “France in danger”. The organization had seized the administrative justice of an interim release, an emergency procedure when the applicant considers to be in the presence of a “serious and manifestly unlawful interference” to a fundamental freedom on the part of a State service.

The police headquarters confirms to France Télévisions to take note of the suspension decision rendered by the court. It had banned this week a total of six gatherings organized by the far right scheduled for the weekend of May 13 and 14 in Paris, including this conference and four demonstrations. It had published decrees, after a circular from the Minister of the Interior aimed at prohibiting several “ultra-right demonstrations and rallies”. Gérald Darmanin had reacted to the controversy linked to the demonstration in Paris on May 6 by ultra-right activists, most of them with their faces hidden and wearing Celtic crosses.

Among the prohibited events is another event at the initiative of Action Française, a demonstration in tribute to Joan of Arc convened on Sunday morning from the Place de l’Opéra (9th arrondissement). The organization announced that it had also filed an interim order with the Paris administrative court against this ban.

A rally in front of the statue of Joan of Arc declared by the movement “Les nationalistes” 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, has also banned, as well as a march by 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 prohibited by the prefect of police.