Civil and human rights circles in France announced the organization of peaceful protest marches against police violence in several cities of the country today, Saturday, a few days after the police shot dead a teenager.
The murder of 17-year-old Nael, of Algerian origin, and the unprecedented violence that has followed since 2005 in the country have exposed the cumulative problems of French society, from the difficulties faced by working-class neighborhoods to the constant tension between youth and the security forces.
The French judiciary has prevented a march that was to be organized today, Saturday, in the Paris area in honor of the memory of the young Adam Traore, who died during his arrest in 2016, citing the unrest that followed Nael’s death.
The administrative court in Cergy-Pontoise near Paris, to which the request for a meeting was urgently filed, relied on the “riots that followed the death of Nael” on June 27 in Nanterre to reach the decision delivered on Friday evening.
“While the violence has subsided in recent days, the fact that it occurred only recently does not allow us to assume that there was no danger of disturbing the peace,” the court said in a statement.
“Tomorrow, Saturday, there will be no march in Beaumont-sur-Oise,” activist Assa Traore, the older sister of Adama Traore, who organizes rallies in his honor, confirmed in a video message posted on Twitter.
“The government decided to add fuel to the fire,” she said, “and showed disrespect for the death of my younger brother.” But the activist against police violence confirmed that she will be present “on Saturday at 1500 (1300 GMT) at the Place de la République” in Paris to shout “to the whole world that our dead have a right to exist, even in death.” “.
Source: AFP.