Attack at the Paris Police Prefecture. The initiator of the rally in support of Mickaël Harpon placed in custody

Hadama Traoré, former candidate of the "suburbs" in the Europeans was put in custody Wednesday evening. He wanted to organize a demonstration in support of the assailant of the Prefecture of Police of Paris. The Minister of the Interior, who banned the event, denounced an "infamy".

He intended to denounce the "disinformation". Hadama Traoré, was taken into custody on the evening of Wednesday 9 October for "threats and acts of intimidation against a person exercising a public or community service", "threats of crimes against persons" and "contempt" after attempting to organize a rally in support of the perpetrator of the massacre at the Paris Police Prefecture.

The event scheduled for Thursday in Gonesse, where lived Mickaël Harpon, was banned, said Wednesday Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, who called it "infamous" .

"The planned demonstration in Gonesse in support of the assassin of the police headquarters is an infamy and an insult to the memory of our police officers. I spoke with the prefect of Val-d'Oise: the rally will be banned, " said the Minister of the Interior on Twitter.

Christophe Castaner also announced his intention to alert justice following remarks by the organizer of the event.

"Hateful thing"

"I asked that the hateful remarks made by his organizer be denounced to the public prosecutor, on the basis of Article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure," added the minister, still on the social network.

In a message posted on Facebook, Hadama Traoré, a political activist in Aulnay-sous-Bois, says that the author of the killing, Mickaël Harpon, "is not a religious extremist" and calls for a rally in front of the town hall from Gonesse (Val d'Oise) from 1 pm to 3 pm Thursday.

"A request for a classic event has been filed by Hadama Traoré, the analysis is underway, we will quickly give an answer," said the prefecture of Val d'Oise.

Right and far right, but also some left, were upwind Wednesday against the organization of this homage to the killer of the prefecture of Paris, demanding its prohibition and for some the pursuit of its initiators.

"Of course you have to ban it"

"Of course you have to ban it, there is not even a question to ask," said Frédéric Péchenard, vice-president (LR) of the Ile-de-France region and former director general of the national police , on LCI.

"How can we believe that Emmanuel Macron could fight against" the Islamist hydra "when he can not even ban a demonstration of support for the murderer of four policemen organized by an earthworm? Asked Marine Le Pen, president of the National Gathering, on Twitter.

Including left voices rose against this demonstration.

Yannick Jadot, boss of EELV, considered on Sud Radio "this form of legitimization of an absolutely abominable attack is scandalous" . "We are really sometimes at the end of the abject and cynicism," he lamented.

The Radical Party of the Left has demanded "the outright ban on the demonstration + shame and filth" organized in support of the killer of the Prefecture of Police .

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