Protests erupted in the French capital after a court lifted a police ban. Lawyer Eri Alimi, representing the mass protest against the law, called for a march on Twitter between the two central squares known as the Place de la Republic and the Place de la Bastille.
Called the “Stop Loi Security Global” or Stop Global Security Law, this group is made up of journalists’ organizations, human rights NGOs and other groups. They are advocating for the repeal of sections 21 and 22 of the proposed law, “which regulates group surveillance”, and section 24, which would penalize “corrupt” dissemination of the image of police officers.
He also called on Home Minister Gerald Durmani to crack down on the so-called “new national policing plan” announced in September, ordering police to disperse journalists during demonstrations, thus preventing them from covering. After protests, often turbulent in recent years.
More than 100 local elected officials from the Paris region announced their participation in the protest through a public forum in the French weekly newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche.
The law was being reviewed by France’s lower chamber, the National Assembly, in the same way that protests saw two cases of police violence over a weekend marked by a tense weekend.
MLAs say the bill was amended by the government to ensure freedom of the press and lead to the Senate in December.
Police in riot gear stormed a rally in central Paris on Monday, removing hundreds of protesters by truck. Images of the violence went viral on social media, prompting scrutiny of the government’s plans to outlaw these images.
At a news conference on Wednesday, French Interior Minister Dermanin was asked about police responses to the protest, and a video of a journalist claiming that police had threatened to arrest him despite showing his press card.
“The journalist did not reach out to police before protesting – as some of his colleagues did – to allow him to cover.”
Yet journalists are not required to seek police permission before anything in French law covers protesters.
The video has been viewed more than 13 million times on Twitter, with many public figures calling for police violence, including international soccer players Anton Griezmann and Kylian Mbappe.
The Paris police prefecture said the French internal police investigation agency had been asked to investigate the incident. It added that he had asked the Director General of National Police to suspend the police officers involved as a precaution. CNN was unable to immediately determine who represented the suspended officers.
President Emanuel Macron denounced “images that bring shame on us” when he called on the government to “make quick proposals” to “fight all forms of discrimination more effectively.”
Cecil Coud Drew, president of Amnesty International France, told CNN that while the police can sometimes use police force illegally, people cannot film anything on the streets.
“On the one hand, citizens are told to accept the possibility that they will be filmed under the pretext that they have no fear if they have not done anything wrong. And at the same time, the police have refused to film, which is a right in every democracy. In the world. “
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