Criticized after the holding of an ultra-right rally in Paris, Gérald Darmanin decided to act. In a note addressed to the prefects, which Le Parisien was able to consult, the Minister of the Interior asks them to rely on the so-called "Dieudonné" jurisprudence, which applies to a ban on shows, to ban ultra-right demonstrations.
While the images of the rally, organized Saturday in Paris in tribute to the activist killed Sébastien Deyzieu, shocked part of the political class, the minister promised Tuesday that the prefects would now take measures to ban this type of demonstration. Criticized, the Paris police prefecture had explained that it had not been able to ban Saturday's rally, organized every year around May 9, because it had not detected a risk of disturbances to public order. The demonstration went smoothly.
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To prevent "the images seen in Paris from happening again" in the future, Gérald Darmanin therefore asks the prefects to rely on the "Dieudonné jurisprudence". In January 2014, in Nantes, the comedian's show entitled "The Wall" was banned by the Council of State following a judicial showdown, the highest court considering that there was a "serious risk of serious attacks on respect for values and principles, including the dignity of the human person".
Regarding ultra-right demonstrations, the authorities will no longer only have to warn of "risks of disturbance of public order", "parades of masked persons" and "reconstitution of dissolved groups" but also now "calls for violence against groups of people" and the "denial of crimes against humanity".
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"With regard to the program of the gathering, the associations that demonstrate, or the personalities likely to participate", the prefects will have to determine whether the demonstration presents a risk that "slogans or remarks likely to call into question national cohesion or the principles enshrined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (...) are expressed," the note said. The minister gives examples of reprehensible remarks: "apology of collaboration", "slogan advocating remigration", "amalgam between immigration and Islamism or terrorism or delinquency".
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Also targeted are "speeches systematically equating people of non-European origin with criminals and a threat to fight and people of Muslim faith with radical Islamists" or the instrumentalization of "news items involving people of foreign origin to designate foreigners for vindictiveness". As a reminder, far-right rallies had been organized after the Lola case, the 12-year-old girl killed by a woman of Algerian origin last October in the nineteenth arrondissement of Paris. Slogans such as "immigration kills" were chanted.
Gérald Darmanin therefore asks the representatives of the State in the territories to "take without delay the necessary measures to prevent such gatherings and demonstrations from happening again".