The independent democratic worker party challenged a prohibition order to demonstrate dating from June 2021. The administrative court of Paris proved him right.
by Abel Mestre
It is a stop gone unnoticed but which is of a certain importance. On February 17, the Paris administrative court canceled a ban on a parade filed by the Independent and Democratic Workers’ Party (PEDD). He also decides that “the prefect of police will pay the sum of 1,000 euros to article L. 761-1 of the Administrative Justice Code.”
The facts date back to June 2021. The Trotskyist Lambertiste party – of the pseudonym of Pierre Lambert, of his real name Pierre Boussel, died in 2008 – had filed a request for authorization to demonstrate in Paris, between Place de la Nation And that of the Bastille, for Saturday June 5. The object was a series of classic claims of this political family: “For democracy, against the V e Republic!/Outside Macron, its government and its policy!/For the sovereign constituent assembly, for a workers’ government “. The prefecture does not allow the parade, but only a static gathering.
Reason? A serious risk that “radical elements and with high violent potential” come to be grafted for this rally or turn into “wild processions in other districts, in order to attack the police” and to commit degradations on urban furniture or shops. The same day was organized, a few hundred meters away, Place de la République, the annual parade in honor of Clément Méric, a young anti -fascist killed in 2013 following a brawl with neonazi activists. The fear was therefore a junction between the two demonstrations.
An unconvincing argument. Lambertists have, precisely, the reputation of being a very ordered current, which never leaves room for the slightest overflow or degradations. On the other hand, the parades in memory of Clément Méric are not the occasion for clashes and take place smoothly. And finally, these are two political currents that do not frequent and between whom the links are almost nonexistent.
“We welcome this judgment”
To challenge the decision of the police prefect Didier Lallement, in place at that time, the weight filed a liberty summons, but the request was rejected on Saturday morning of the rally. The delay was therefore too short to seize the Council of State.
m. Lalment, who was able to quote Léon Trotski on his greeting cards for the new year 2020, should have known that the Lambertists were proceeded. In 1968, the internationalist Communist Organization, ancestor of the Poid, had been dissolved following the events of May-68, even though it had not taken part in the clashes. The Lambertists had obtained the cancellation of this dissolution two years later before the Council of State.
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