Slightly edited; see the original article for a number of photos.
Success of rallies, demonstrations "justice for Nahel, justice for Adama"
Published by PCOF on July 9. 2023
July 8 rally, at the Place de la Republique [,Paris]
Updated
Paris: success of the rally and demonstration of July 8 at the Place de la Republique
The rally and demonstration in support of "Truth and Justice for Adama" committee brought together some 2,000 people.
The 95th police prefect had forbidden the march of the committee that takes place every year in Ermont Beaumont since the assassination of Adama, a march that was followed by a party in which the inhabitants of the neighborhood participated. In its communication, the prefecture of Val d'Oise, announced many road checks, the closure of the station ... in short, a police closure to prevent any gathering and to isolate the city.
The March was then called to the Place de la Republique. The Paris prefect also banned gatherings and demonstrations. Appeals filed by several organizations in the name of freedom to demonstrate before the administrative court were unsuccessful.
Hundreds of people joined at the Place de la Republique, to defend the right to demonstrate and to express their support for the collective "justice for Adama", its fight and the fight against police violence, to shout "justice for Nahel, justice for Adama" and all victims of police bullets.
The demonstrators listened to speeches, including that of Adama's sister and LFI member of parliament E. Coquerel and other leaders of organizations. The police of Brav-M and gendarmes began to surround the demonstrators. Arrests were made, several of which were filmed: police brutality was once again directed against demonstrators. The way the Brav-M officers tackled Adama's brother to the ground, using the same "back tackle" technique that had been used against Adama, was filmed and the video is circulating widely, as well as videos of violence against photographers present at the scene.
The interventions continued in front of the statue at the Place de la Republique, then the rally went into a demonstration on the Boulevard Magenta and grew as the march progressed. They chanted slogans against police violence, for justice "No justice, no peace" and "Zied, Bouna, Theo, we do not forget, we do not forgive!". The protesters stopped to listen once again to Adama's sister, perched on the roof of a bus shelter. As a roadblock of police blocked the boulevard, and made warnings to disperse with tear gas, the organizers called for the dispersal.
This rally and demonstration was a success that showed that it is possible to resist the anti-democratic decisions that have been taken since Nahel's assassination.
The government decided to prosecute Assa Traoré for calling for a banned rally when more than a hundred organizations relayed the call for this rally!
Adama's sister, Assa Traoré
500 people for Alhoussein in Angoulême [southwest of Paris near the coast]
This Saturday, July 8, the friends of the young Guinean worker shot dead by the police during a ordinary check of papers organized a rally followed by a march neither "white" nor silent. This tragedy took place 13 days before that of Nahel in Nanterre which triggered the rebellions of the popular youth throughout the country, and yet there was radio silence for Alhoussein!
This youth from immigrant backgrounds was very appreciated, perfectly integrated socially and through his work at the Intermarché regional base a few kilometers from the city, he practiced football at CS Leroy d'Angoulême, which lost a great player and a clubmate always close to his teammates. He was just going to work, early in the morning! It is difficult even to accept the so-called "refusal to comply" because Alhoussein stopped at a red light, followed by the police. This raises the question of racism and police controls, the question of the law of February 2017 to be repealed quickly, not to mention the concealing of the RIO number and the activation, in principle mandatory, of the video of any police force before any intervention.
So many questions were asked by the placards and many others, such as the public money used for new detention centers while the popular neighborhoods lack many basic things for the social life of the greatest number. The cries of "police murderers!", "no justice, no peace", "justice for Nahel", "justice for Alhoussein"... accompanied the walkers.
The procession was made up of working-class families, young and old, all under discreet police surveillance whose main activity was to photograph the participants! At the end of the march, during the speech, the commissioner of the gendarmerie tried to speak... but the shouts and refusals prevented him! The killer has now been indicted for voluntary homicide, but will justice prevail? And when? We all remember "Truth and Justice for Steeve" 4 years ago, still without judicial response!
The time has come to find concrete material support for the return of his body to Guinea, and especially to find the right lawyer capable of asserting the rights of the victim and his family, because in this case there is no camera or witness: only the facts serve as evidence. Hence the demand to repeal the "global security" law and then "on separatism" which prohibit any photo of a police officer in action (the famous Article 24 passed from one law to another following the popular and massive protest in autumn 2021).
The organizations present were Lutte ouvrière, NPA, PCOF, LFI including a deputy, UJR, participants of the June Pride March, associations for the defense of unaccompanied young minors, Baobab and Aadmie, RESF ... as well as many people already present against the dissolution of the Earth Uprisings a few days ago. Coordination is being established.
Strasbourg [on the border with Germany], demonstration of July 8
Announced less than 48 hours before Saturday, July 8, the event "IN MOURNING, IN ANGER", first banned for portions of the course rejected by the prefecture, the organizing collective did not let itself be muzzled. The demonstration took place along an alternative route. It brought together between 700 and 800 people, all generations combined, from retirees to young students, the procession joined the Place de la Bourse chanting the slogans "Police everywhere, justice nowhere", "Justice for Nahel", "National police, militia of capital". "Mourning and angry."
Many of those present were activists and expressed the need to rally against the current deleterious atmosphere. For many, systemic racism among the police must be combated by confronting the nauseating ideas of those who, like Macron, put forward a "republican front".
All the participants greeted the hundred or so political parties, trade unions and associations that came together to sign this text in a few days.
Anti-fascist chants resounded in the streets of Strasbourg. They will not pass.
At the end of the course, the national text was read followed by several other interventions, including that of an LFI deputy who denounced a racist leaflet of a fascist group distributed in Mulhouse containing swastikas and insignia of the 3rd Reich.
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