"A peaceful rally will be organized this weekend," Annecy City Hall announced on its website Thursday evening, a few hours after the knife attack that injured four children aged 22 months to 3 years. The press release recalls the number (04.50.33.61.33) of the public information unit, set up by the prefecture of Haute-Savoie, and asks residents not to contact the services of the City by phone, the switchboards are saturated.
Information must be provided "at a later date" for the time and place of the meeting. The rally will be authorized, while Thursday, the prefect of Haute-Savoie and the prosecutor at the judicial court of Annecy called not to meet spontaneously in reaction to the events. Calls to demonstrate under the heading "Francocide" had been launched on social networks by small groups of the extreme right, and about fifty people defied the warning in the evening, gathering near the playground on which Abdalmasih H. stabbed.
Participants in the rally, many of whom wore black surgical masks so as not to be recognized, sang "La Marseillaise" several times, chanted the slogan "La France aux Français" and some shouted at the journalists present.
