more than 1,000 people in the streets of Dijon
3:30 p.m.: the speeches follow one another at Place Wilson
3:00 p.m.: the Pride march arrives at Place Wilson
Speeches are made. Several demonstrators bathe in the fountain.
2:45 p.m.: the procession advances in front of the Castel high school
The organizers are trying to avoid the police, who are blocking access to the city center.
2:40 p.m.: for the organizers, the objective is to show “that the LGBT movement is present”
Our journalist on site was able to interview Anaïs C., a member of the 25-Novembre collective, in charge of organizing the event. For the organizers, the event is meant to be revolutionary and peaceful.
“The objective is to show in the street and to show that the LGBT movement is present, because today we have no right to exist on a daily basis, we have to hide”, explains Anaïs C. Among the demands, the “support by the mutual of the transition between the sexes, and the depathologization of trans-identity”.
The testimony of Mercy, 21, who participates in her first pride march
2:30 p.m.: this Saturday afternoon, a Pride march in the streets of Dijon
About 500 people are currently gathered at the Canal port. A wandering is planned in the streets of the city of the Dukes, by the rue Monge then the pedestrian streets.
The event was not declared to the prefecture. While in France, several Pride marches are organized, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin has asked for greater mobilization of the police and the gendarmerie to “detect possible threats” around LGBT processions, after the possible terrorist attack in Oslo.