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Violent incidents broke out in Paris on Saturday night, where thousands of people took to the streets to protest the brutality of the police, but also a controversial bill that would make the dissemination of images with the intervention of the forces of order illegal.
The demonstration degenerated into violence, the protesters set fire to the protection fences installed by the police, but also to street signs and cars. The forces of order responded with tear gas.
Thousands of people marched across the country on Saturday to protest police violence and campaign for press freedom.
Public opinion was shocked by the appearance of images in which several policemen beat a black music producer, after he, who had gone out without a mask, for fear of a fine, took refuge in his studio, and arrived the police on him and beat him. The press, social networks and several athletes have denounced police violence.
The French are even more indignant that a bill is being passed in Parliament these days that would make the dissemination of images with police interventions illegal. Basically, under the umbrella of this law, the contestants say, this abuse could have been covered up.
The “Global Security” bill being debated in the French Parliament, and in particular its Article 24, which would criminalize the “malicious” distribution of photographs of police officers during demonstrations, has outraged civil liberties activists and of professional journalists’ organizations.
In the city of Lille, between 1,000 and 1,500 people, led by the mayor Martine Aubry, gathered under the slogan “Freedom, equality, cinema”, reports Agerpres. In Montpellier, between 4,000 and 5,000 protesters chanted slogans against police violence and the “authoritarian drift” of the state.
There is another case of police violence that scandalized France this week, also being revealed through a video. On Monday, during an operation by pro-immigrant organizations, police brutally evacuated those stationed in a central Paris square, including journalists and city officials.
All of this makes the bill difficult to pass in Parliament.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
