Toulouse. A hundred people at the prohibited demonstration against racism and state violence
The demonstration against racism and state violence was banned in Toulouse. It still took place on Saturday March 19 with a hundred people.
As the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination approaches March 21th, a demonstration against racism and state violence was organized in Toulouse and in several cities in mainland France on Saturday March 19.
A hundred people gathered for the occasion on the square Charles de Gaulle, where the Jean Jaurès metro station is located, at the gates of the hypercentre of the Pink City. Among the demands of the demonstrators, there is in particular the “end of permanent identity checks and the establishment of a receipt which obliges the agents to justify these checks”.
The demonstration against racism and the violence of banned states in the hypercentre of Toulouse
The demonstration organized in Toulouse, in particular at the call of the Truth and Justice Committee 31, had not been the subject of a declaration in the prefecture. It should be remembered that Toulouse was placed under high security because of the sad tenth anniversary of the attacks perpetrated by Mohammed Merah. This is why the prefecture of Haute-Garonne had taken a decree pronouncing the “Prohibition of access to the Toulouse hypercentre to any undeclared protest rally on Saturday March 19”.
In addition to the risk of “disturbing public order”, the decree notes that “the absence of declaration of demonstration does not make it possible to identify organizers in capacity to control the number of participants”. A dozen police vehicles were therefore present around the Capitol on rue d’Alsace-Lorraine.