A man is to be tried in September in Paris for violence and degradation committed against the participants of a religious procession organized in May in memory of the Catholics killed in 1871 during the Commune, according to the Paris prosecutor's office.
The defendant, aged about 38, was summoned by the prosecution to the criminal court on September 15 for acts of "concerted obstruction by violence to the freedom of demonstration", "violation of the freedom of worship", "violence aggravated "," degradation in meeting "and" theft ", it was specified.
On May 29, a pilgrimage organized by the diocese for the 150th anniversary of the executions of religious and faithful during the Paris Commune was attacked by hostile people, in the east of the capital, causing two minor injuries.
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"A group threw insults
at us Down with the Versaillais
and uttered death threats and then launched projectiles", had told Stéphane Mayor, parish priest of Notre-Dame-des-Otages, whose name refers to a About fifty of them killed on rue Haxo on May 26, 1871.
According to a police source, "it was a small group which had just dispersed at the end of the demonstration" at the Fédéré wall of the Père Lachaise cemetery, where combatants from the Commune were shot during the repression by the army of the government of Versailles.
The Archbishop of Paris Michel Aupetit and Stéphane Mayor then lodged a complaint.
These events had provoked many reactions within the Catholic world, in the media and on social networks, some disapproving of the principle of such a “martyrs march”.
This initiative was intended to be "spiritual and not militant", replied the Archbishop, as were other events planned for the previous days by the diocese.
