Gaza: Paris defied the ban on demonstrations, collision Limited

Benedict and Diane FAUCHET FALCONER | AFP -

Shooting grenades, tear gas and arrests despite the ban, thousands of people attended a pro-Palestinian demonstration Saturday in Paris, which led to little contact with the police encounters, a week after violence in unauthorized demonstrations above.

Seventy people were arrested and placed within thirty event, which took place in the Republic, in custody, told reporters, Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve. Twelve minor injuries were reported between CRS and gendarmes.

At the same time, thousands of people marched in silence Lyon, Marseille, Lille, Bordeaux and Toulouse, because it almost every weekend since the beginning of the Israeli offensive in Gaza three weeks.

Paris, on the afternoon of the Court upheld the ban on the case, decided to police headquarters on the grounds that the organizers did not have enough security guarantees.

But at 5:00 clock, two hours after the start of the event, about 4,000 people, according to the Interior Ministry, 10,000 according to the organizers, in a crowded place de la République, where it remained static without moving.

The calm after the event was of an incident in which a small group began throwing projectiles caused around the place in use on police en masse. In all, nearly 2,000 were mobilized police and gendarmes in the capital.

Gendarmerie and police responded with tear gas, while the glass walls of the bus to pieces, stoned transactions that fall behind the curtain and I am blown collapsed. The journalists were attacked, including the ITV team that ruined everything with his camera, according to the chain.

"Young people have played a role of appeasement, but this event was attended by many to break the racket that there is to hate a confrontation to organize violence," said Bernard Cazeneuve After the rally, citing "well controlled "incidents by the police.

Although it was war, threw thirty Muslim worshipers in prayer, religious improvised on the spot.

- Action "legitimate" -

At the beginning of the event, waved to the crowd Palestinian flags and red flags of the new anti-capitalist party in the sun (NPA), which was called to challenge the ban.

"Israel and Palestine, which ended in the colonial period", "Killer Israel, Netherlands accomplices," "We are all Palestinians" but "live missiles Resistance" I chanted the demonstrators.

"This event is illegal, but for us it is more than legitimate. This is our solidarity with the people who are killed show" Hugo, young activists whose figurehead NPA, Olivier Besancenot, attended the meeting said.

The young man climbed the statue of an activated smoke and burned an Israeli flag in the colors of the Palestinian applause. Some of the swastikas were daubed stone monuments.

Before the event, the police received, police said intervene a "firm instructions to" "fast and challenging" cases, such as "anti-Semitic slogans and demonstrations."

Francois Hollande, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, synagogues miss on 14 July, the not possible to "import" France overflows near the Bastille district at the end of the approved event. France has, however, been criticized by some as the voice for Israel in the diplomatic line.

Last week, two demonstrations degenerated in a suburb of Paris Barbès, other Sarcelles, northern suburb of the capital, where shops, including a kosher grocery store was banned devastated.

19 days after the Israeli attack on Gaza killed more than 1,000 Palestinians and 39 Israelis. The meeting was held in Paris on Saturday and called on the international actors in order to extend the ceasefire but Hamas rockets back at Israel hours.