Ultra-right: tensions during the demonstration of the French Action finally authorized in Paris

The royalist and nationalist movement Action française did indeed organize its demonstration this Sunday to celebrate Joan of Arc, justice having suspended Saturday evening the ban imposed by the Paris police headquarters. The Paris administrative court stressed in its decision that the demonstration “does not constitute an incitement to cause disturbances to public order, even taking into account the context of current social tensions” and that it has been “organized for several decades “. The court, however, rejected the appeal of another small group clified on the far right, “Les nationalistes” by Yvan Benedetti, who also wanted to demonstrate this Sunday, judging “sufficiently established the existence of a risk of remarks or gestures inciting any form of hatred, in particular racial hatred”.

Earlier in the day, the same jurisdiction had given reason to the ultra-right movement who wanted to organize a symposium entitled “La France en danger” the same afternoon. It brought together around 350 people, including some masked and dressed in black, in the 12th arrondist, under high police surveillance.

Leaving the Opera, the procession of a few hundred people headed for the Place des Pyramides, where there is a statue of the Maid of Orléans, behind her usual yellow and blue banner claiming the tradition of this meeting. . A small crowd of all ages, in military dress and gait, armband or blue-white-red crest on the arm, chanted “Down with the Republic” and “Darmanin, come back”.

A small moment of tension briefly opposed the demonstrators to the police, deployed in large numbers after the controversy sparked by the demonstration organized by the May 9 Committee last Saturday in Paris. Around 600 activists from this movement, who wanted to mark the 29th anniversary of the death of far-right activist Sébastien Deyzieu, displayed black flags marked with the Celtic cross, neofascist symbol. During the week, the Ministry of the Interior had asked the prefect of police to act to prevent several far-right demonstrations.

Representatives of Place d’armes, whose demonstration was banned on Saturday Place Denfert-Rochereau, joined the ceremony of homage to Joan of Arc, according to our journalist on the spot.