The Lyon prosecutor's office announced Tuesday, October 25 the opening of an investigation for "provocation to hatred" after a demonstration
"of the ultra-right"
on Friday, in tribute to the young Lola, killed in Paris, and marked with xenophobic slogans.
"
The Lyon public prosecutor's office has opened an investigation on the grounds of public provocation to hatred or violence against a person or a group of people on the basis of their origin or their belonging to an ethnic group, nation, race or religion
,” prosecutors said in an email.
The opening of this investigation is carried out "
in the extension
" of the report made Monday by the prefect of the Rhône to the public prosecutor of Lyon "
concerning the demonstration of the ultra-right on Friday
" last, specifies the prosecution.
The investigation was entrusted to the Departmental Directorate of Public Security of the Rhône, according to the same source.
The demonstration, held Friday evening in the center of Lyon, had gathered 100 to 150 people, according to the prefecture.
The mayor of Lyon, Grégory Doucet, had indicated that this rally had been claimed by an activist identifying himself on social networks as a member of "Remparts Lyon", a structure inheriting from the dissolved far-right association "Génération identitaire" .
Videos on social networks, in particular on the Twitter account of "Remparts", had shown hooded people shouting "
immigrant murderers
", with a banner "
Justice for Lola, immigration kills
".
The mayor had therefore written to President Macron on Monday to request the "
immediate
dissolution
" of the "Remparts".
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The circumstances of the death of Lola, killed in Paris on October 14, and the profile of the suspect, of Algerian nationality and under an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), have aroused strong criticism on the right and on the far right.
Following several demonstrations, the girl's family demanded on Friday that "
urgently cease, and be withdrawn, any use of the name and image of their child for political purposes
".