Three days after the controversial demonstration in Paris, the Minister of the Interior announced on Tuesday that all demonstrations of this type will now be subject to a prefectural ban.
“QWhen the Minister recognizes an error, I salute his lucidity, launches the socialist Jérôme Guedj. Now we have to make sure that this visibility of neo-fascist movements cannot happen again.” For most left-wing MPs, he was high time for the Minister of the Interior to react and affirm his firmness vis-à-vis the authorized demonstration in Paris, during which several hundred ultra-right members marched, most of them masked with Celtic crosses on flags.
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Three days after this rally, Gérald Darmanin therefore reacted to the deputies. Before the deputies, the Minister of the Interior judged, like Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne before him, “unacceptable“this demonstration of nearly 600 activists of the Committee of May 9 on Saturday in Paris, the majority of whom had their faces concealed, who wore Celtic crosses. “I have instructed 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“said the Minister.”We will let the courts judge whether case law will allow these demonstrations to be held.“, he added.
“Dissolutions à la carte”
But, in the National Assembly, the left-wing deputies are wondering if they can really trust Gérald Darmanin. “ATabsolutely notanswers the rebellious Thomas Portes. We are used to the elements of language of Gérald Darmanin, who is a ‘double weight, two measures’, that is to say that we allow Nazi demonstrations to take place, but on the other hand we prohibit people who demonstrate with pans. So there is a ‘double standard’ which is irresponsible.”
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AT At the other end of the hemicycle, the National Rally welcomes the minister’s promises, even if Franck Alisio would like to hear the same firmness towards the two extremes. “VSis little arm. If he really wants to act, he applies the proposal made to him by Marine Le Pen for years: to dissolve the ultra-left and ultra-right groups, which are a real danger. We have the impression that these are dissolutions à la carte.” Ie National Rally strongly condemns the demonstration on Saturday, while some participants are former treasurers of Marine Le Pen.