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The Committee for Adama had been banned from its annual march to Persan, in the Oise, then to Paris. Supported by a few rebellious elected officials, he finally managed to set off for the capital on Saturday July 8, before being dispersed.
“Today, we accept the violence that comes from the other side, but we don’t accept when we want to organize ourselves, and when we want to march“, accuses Assa Traoré. Prohibited from demonstrating in Persan (Val-d’Oise), his collective baptized “Committee for Adama“ gathered in Paris, Place de la République, with its supporters, Saturday July 8. The Paris prefecture had also banned this demonstration.
The shattered and dispersed crowd
Many elected officials from rebellious France had come to defend this initiative. “The demonstration becomes banned in France“, lamented the deputy and LFI leader Mathilde Panot, defending “collectives who just want to demonstrate peacefully“. The important device policeman tried to prevent the crowd from rushing, but the latter prevailed. About a thousand people took part in the march. After many traps and tensions, the dispersion will finally succeed, around the Gare de l’Est.