Supervised by the police, about 1200 people, according to the prefecture, marched peacefully Saturday in Lyon "against the extreme right", at the call of a collective supported in particular by deputies of France Insoumise, who came to express their rejection "of racism and anti-Semitism".
At the call of the collective "Let's close the fascist premises", supported by LFI, student unions and an anti-fascist group, the demonstrators marched peacefully behind banners "No to the extreme right, its ideas, its violence", but also placards in support of Palestine.
In the crowd, which sang anti-fascist songs and chanted "Justice for Gaza", were three rebellious MPs, who justified the absence of their movement at the march against anti-Semitism scheduled for Sunday and in several cities in France, including Lyon, by the announced presence of the National Rally at the event. "We are marching against the far right, not next to the far right," said C, a member of parliament for Seine-Saint-Denis, who came with his colleagues from the Paris region Carlos Martens Bilongo and Antoine Léaument.
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We are also here to demonstrate against racism and anti-Semitism," he added, to cut short any accusations of ambiguity. Raphaël Arnault, leader of the Young Guard, an anti-fascist organization present in several cities, denounced at the end of the demonstration those who "walk hand in hand" with "Pétainists." Supporters of the Anti-Fascist Group Lyon and Surroundings (Gale), whose dissolution has just been validated by the Council of State, unfurled a banner: "We don't dissolve a revolt that is rumbling".