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PARIS Tens of thousands of people marched Paris, despite the confinement, to protest against police violence and demand the withdrawal of the global security law that, in its article 24, prohibits filming policemen and gendarmes in action and then spreading the videos with malicious intentions.
An impressive crowd that gathered in the wave of emotion over the beating of Michel Zecler, a music producer attacked by four policemen who filled him with kicks, punches and truncheons, insulting him at the cry of a dirty black man. In their report, the agents reported that the man rebelled against the control and attacked them, trying to take away their service weapons. Surveillance camera footage and video filmed by a neighbor, which would be prohibited under the new law, showed that the police were lying.. The incidents After the meeting in the place de la Rpublique, black with crowds, the protesters marched towards the Bastille.
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A few hundred meters from the square, accidents occurred, with litter bins set on fire and a van overturned, as protesters raised barricades. The agents fired tear gas grenades while a group of young people dressed in black and with the flags of the “antifa” movement chanted the slogan – in Italian – We are all anti-fascists.
Following the scandal caused by the videos of Michel Zecler’s beating, President Macron wrote a long post on Facebook to distance himself from the responsible police officers, assuring that they will be fired and to reassure the public that the values of the Republic will be respected, too. and especially by the police. But the great confusion between the authorities, the Minister of the Interior, Grald Darmanin talks about unacceptable actions regarding the beating but accused of having protected too many police abuses so far, refusing to admit the very existence of the problem. Prime Minister Jean Castex announced that Article 24 will be reviewed and rewritten by an independent commission, but after protests from his own parliamentary majority, he resigned from the project. French society in France, world champions Kylian Mbapp and Antoine Griezmann also spoke out against police violence and racism.
November 28, 2020 (change November 28, 2020 | 17:57)
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