Complaints were filed after incidents during the demonstration against the health pass on Saturday in Belfort: participants in particular tried to break into the premises of the regional daily L'Est Républicain, the prefecture denounced on Sunday.
The prefect Jean-Marie Girier
"strongly denounces the serious incidents that occurred during the demonstration of the antivax,"
said the prefecture in a press release posted on its Twitter and Facebook accounts.
"Intrusion into the premises of L'Est Républicain and threatening journalists
", "
degradation"
of the primary health insurance fund and
"intrusion into a municipal library"
, details the prefecture, which specifies that
"justice is seized
".
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"Local residents have already lodged a complaint,
" Mr. Girier told AFP, specifying that the prefecture had not lodged a complaint
"since the facts (had) been the subject of complaints or flagrances" .
"No major damage"
noted, "except for tags, such as a" Collabo "tag in the hall of L'Est Républicain," added the prefect.
"The consequences will be drawn for the next demonstrations,"
the prefecture further warned in its press release.
Egg throws
Demonstrators, who accused in particular
"the daily newspaper of" spreading false information "
,
" forced the gate of the porch then the front door of the building, which gave in under the pressure
", relates L'Est Républicain.
"A crowd, estimated at at least 100 people by the inhabitants of the building, entered the hall and the stairwell before trying to break
into
"
the daily agency but,
"despite the blows shoulder, the door of the editorial staff resisted,
”says the newspaper.
"
The protesters left after having thrown to the ground reproductions of articles from our newspaper, torn and crumpled, and having thrown eggs in the commons"
, explains the daily.
Insults, attacks and even attacks against journalists are frequent during demonstrations against the health pass.
In the East, at the end of July, an anti-pass procession had stopped in front of the premises of France Bleu Belfort-Montbéliard and L'Est Républicain to pour out a shower of insults.
And on July 17 in Besançon, a reporter from the associative radio station Radio Bip / Media 25 was punched by a demonstrator.
