Justice has ruled in favour of the royalist movement Action française, which is therefore authorized to organize a symposium on the theme "The France in danger" this Saturday. The administrative court ruled this Saturday noon and suspended the ban on this conference.
The Paris police prefecture had published, Friday, several orders prohibiting five gatherings of organizations classified as far right planned for this weekend. Action française had, in the aftermath, announced that it wanted to file an appeal with the administrative court, just like the far-right figure Yvan Benedetti.
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In addition to those of the Action française, rallies organized by Yvan Benedetti's "Les Nationalistes" and "Penser la France", both planned Sunday in Paris for the feast of Joan of Arc, had also been banned. This is also the case of a march of the military association "Place d'armes" organized this Saturday and a demonstration of "Yellow Vests", which was to take the same route.
Tense context and risk of clashes
To justify these orders, the police prefecture had put forward a "particularly tense context" after the controversy triggered by an ultra-right parade last week. It also pointed to the "risk of disturbances to public order", while several of these demonstrations have prompted calls for counter-rallies by organizations "close to the radical left" and that a mobilization of the "antifascist movement" that could "try to physically attack" ultra-right activists is possible.
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The prefect also mentioned the "risk of clashes" between far-right activists themselves, recalling that some had already fought during the previous edition of this tribute to Joan of Arc.
These orders, taken Friday by the prefect of police Laurent Nuñez, are the first translation of the instruction given Tuesday to the prefects by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, to ban from now on any demonstration "of the ultra-right or the extreme right". Last Saturday, during a demonstration organized by the May 9 Committee, activists, dressed in black and often masked, displayed black flags marked with the Celtic cross. They were demonstrating to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the death of a far-right activist, Sébastien Deyzieu, who died in an accident in 1994.