Police prefecture prohibits Parisian demonstration of teachers on Thursday

The request has been made “out of time”, has been learned, Tuesdays, of concordant sources.

Le Monde with AFP

The Paris Police Prefecture has banned the Parisian event of several teacher trade union organizations scheduled Thursday, January 20 to ask “strong answers” against the “chaos” generated by the health crisis, the demand having been made “out of Deadline, Tuesday, January 17, concordant sources were learned.

The Unit Federation (FSU), the Education Union of the General Labor Confederation (CGT), Force Ouvrière (FO) and the South Education Federation, as well as the Federation of Parents’ Advice ( FCPE), the first organization of parents of students, and the independent and democratic Federation (FIDL), the national high school student (MNL) and the high school voice have called upon to “continue mobilization” after the strike very followed Thursday last Thursday, in Committing “in a new day of action Thursday, including by the strike”.

“The Paris Police Prefecture refuses to authorize the event organized by the Intersyndical of Ile-de-France. Not content to remain deaf to the anger and the demands of the staff of the national education, the government , through his representative, denies them the right to express it by demonstrating in Paris “, regrets the CGT in a communiqué . The Trade Union Confederation considers this decision of the “unacceptable” police prefect and “requires that the constitutional right to manifest be respected”.

The FSU “requires the prohibition to be lifted”

“After a successful demonstration, on January 13, the police prefecture prohibits the expression of the personal demands following the announcements made by the Prime Minister (…). The FSU protests strongly and requires the prohibition of demonstration be lifted, “said the organization in a communiqué .

Faced with this prohibition to protest, the Union FO says “Century [IR] [Son] wish to gather before the Ministry of Education, on the same day, Thursday”. “The reason for this refusal being non-compliance with too short deadlines between our request and the date of the event, we note that the deadlines were even shorter between the decision to set up the last health protocol in the institutions and its implementation “, writes the union confederation in a statement.

A gracious appeal has been sent by the unions. According to a source close to the file, “they counted on each other to make the statement, so they are out of time. So the manifestation is prohibited”. And if they come all the same, “it’s a crime,” warned.

/Media reports.