They denounce the “xenophobic” nature of the text.
Several thousand people demonstrated in Paris on Saturday to demand the repeal of the Immigration law, despite the 35 articles repealed on January 25 by the Constitutional Council.
“Immigration, Darmanin will not lay down the law”, “racism, colonialism, fascism, we don’t want this society”, could we read on the signs of the procession that left the Place de la République to join the Place Gambetta, at the call of collectives of undocumented immigrants and unions in particular.
🤜Solidarity with undocumented immigrants and immigrants!
🤜Solidarity with the Palestinian resistance!
Racism, Colonialism, Fascism, we don't want this society! #AntiracistSolidarity#AntifascistSolidarity#InternationalSolidarity#AgainstTheLawDarmanin pic.twitter.com/KmPiefkAC1
— Marche des Solidarités (@MSolidarites) February 3, 2024
“We are happy that the Constitutional Council has sanctioned a certain number of measures but it is the law as a whole which seems bad to us so we are asking for its overall withdrawal,” declared Emmanuelle Jollet, co-responsible for FSU Île-de-France. France.
“We are not giving up, because it is a fundamental question of values,” she added, while the law, many of which were added by the right during its passage through Parliament, were censored by the Wise Men, was promulgated on January 27.
“Not thugs, nor terrorists”
“We have been fighting for a year against this racist and xenophobic law, we will continue to denounce and fight it,” added Cybèle David, Solidaires national secretary.
“What worries us most is the question of repression and criminalization of foreigners who are, through this law, perceived as a so-called danger while foreign people who live on the territory participate in life social and economic and contribute enormously to our society,” she said.
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For Mariama Sidibe, spokesperson for the coordination of undocumented immigrants (CSP) 75, present at the head of the procession, “we are asking for humanity, we are asking for our rights, we are workers, we are workers, we are not thugs, nor terrorists.”
“If we have to come and demonstrate every week, we will,” she said.
Organized at the call of the coordination of undocumented immigrants and the Solidarity March, the procession marched alongside another procession of support in Gaza demanding an end to Israeli bombings on the civilian population.
In total, the Paris police headquarters identified 3,400 people.
Other rallies against the immigration law were organized in several cities, notably in Bordeaux, Strasbourg and Lyon where, according to the prefecture, 1,400 people demonstrated.
There were 150 of them in Toulouse, according to the prefecture.