The event, which takes place every year in mid-March, met with the call of the network of self-help truth and justice and the campaign Antiracism and solidarity.
Le Monde with AFP
“Racism is a virus, stop it”: About a thousand people have manifested Paris against racism and police violence on Saturday, March 19th.
Meeting Place du Châtelet, the protesters slevened in the afternoon towards the Stalingrad Square, behind two banners proclaiming “Stop to State Crimes” and “Wherever one comes, where Whether born, our country is called solidarity “. The procession, which takes place every year in mid-March, remained blocked for a moment, the protests protesting against the important device put in place by the police.
They responded to the call of the Truth and Justice Network Network and the Antiracism and Solidarity Campaign, which brings together various organizations, including Attac, the right to housing, the National High School (MNL) movement or trade unions such as the FSU or Solidarity.
“Reaffirm our values of anti-racism and equality”
Mobilization – on the occasion of the World Day Against Racism and that also in March against police violence – aims to “reaffirm our values of anti-racism and equal rights”, “said Cybele David , National Secretary of Solidarity, citing, among the claims, the regularization of undocumented migrants.
“What is asked is that it is no longer eligible in 2022, at a time when we are in the open presidential election, that we stigmatize foreign and foreign, while, at the Current time, the war in Ukraine demonstrates that we are able to welcome refugees, “also said Raji Aletcheredji, Federal Secretary of Solidarity Students.
Nearby victims of police violence were gathered behind the help banner of the self-help network with “Lamine”, “Sabri”, “Ibrahima” or “Cédric”. Some took the floor to tell their story, like the sister of Lamine, died in 2007 “by bottleneck and ventral plating”, or this father engineer, who recounted his fight for the truth after the death of his son of his son 19 years “killed a bullet in the heart at a banal road control” in Marseille EN 2021.
Other processions were planned in France, Toulouse, Bordeaux or Lyon, according to the organizers.