Opponents of the comprehensive security bill resume service this Saturday.
Mobilized since November and ready to demonstrate "as long as it takes", the latter plan to pound the pavement all over France for "the defense of freedoms".
They will be joined in several cities (Paris, Bordeaux, Lille, Nantes, Rennes…) by the “teufeurs” of the “free parties” movement, in the name of the “right to culture”.
In Paris, while the snow has invaded the capital, the event will leave at 2 p.m. from Place Daumesnil to join that of the Bastille.
In total, nearly 80 rallies are planned in the country "for the right to information, against police violence, for the freedom to demonstrate and against mass surveillance", at the call of the coordination of associations and unions mobilized against the “global security” law.
The movement of "free parties", rarely united, this time made a common front to promote the right to culture and oppose "disproportionate repression" after the rave party in Lieuron (Ille-et-Vilaine) which brought together 2,400 people at New year.
The coordination brings together associations such as the Human Rights League and Amnesty, many unions and associations, journalists and directors in particular.
"The issues relate to respect for the rule of law"
The “comprehensive security” bill, of which the very controversial article 24 notably restricts the dissemination of images of the police, has already been passed at first reading in the National Assembly.
It is now due for consideration in March in the Senate.
“The stakes are […] major.
They affect the very respect for the rule of law "and the control of the authorities" by citizens, Parliament, justice and the press ", underline the associations, which continue to demand the withdrawal of several provisions, starting with article 24.
The collective, which asks to be received by President Emmanuel Macron, also targets articles 21 and 22 on the use of pedestrian cameras and drones by the police, and of the "new national plan for the maintenance of 'order' (SNMO), regularly invoked by the police to limit media coverage of the demonstrations.
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For the Council of Europe, article 24 of the Global Security law is "an attack on freedom of expression"
"It is the resumption of the fight", notes Gérald Le Corre, one of the persons in charge of the CGT in Seine-Maritime, who declares to feel coming a "wind of anger" with the extension of the curfew to 6 pm and because “The only freedoms” granted are “to the economy”.
"The government (takes) measures against freedom in a social and economic context which is deteriorating", denounces Stéphane Obé, departmental secretary of CGT Gironde.
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The bill has been strongly criticized in France by the Defender of Rights and the National Consultative Commission on Human Rights, and abroad by special rapporteurs of the United Nations and the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council. from Europe.
VIDEO. Demonstration against the Global Security Law: several incidents in Paris
The mobilization against the “global security” bill, launched on November 17, gave rise to several days of demonstrations, often joined by yellow vests.
The largest, on November 28, brought together 500,000 people in the country according to the coordination, 133,000 according to the government.
A next “big gathering” is already planned in Paris on Saturday January 30.
