The weather is getting heavier at the Paris demonstration against police violence blocked in République: in the last few minutes there is a dense throw of stones and other objects against the agents. Black-bloc groups are in action. A tear gas shower is coming to the crowd from the police. The prefecture tolerates the presence of 6,000 people on the square despite the post-lockdown health rules still prohibiting the gatherings of more than 10 people. Impossible, however, to parade through the city.
The crowd gathered at place de la République for the demonstration against police violence and to ask for justice for Adama Traoré, the Frenchman who died in 2016 during a police detention, reached 15,000 people. The tension continues, in the square no distancing rule is respected, there are constant police charges, stones and cobblestones thrown at the agents and a response with a shower of tear gas. The crowd is invited to leave the square through the streets indicated by the agents to dissolve the assembly, which is prohibited in this reopening period after the lockdown. Black-bloc groups continue to attempt the breakthrough in the direction of the path foreseen by the demonstrators, but not authorized, towards place de l'Opèra. In groups, when the clashes subside, the protesters kneel and chant slogans against the police, for Adama Traoré and George Floyd.