Tuesday 1 February 2011
Paris: Sarkozy Police represses solidarity with Egypt!
While the demonstrations in Cairo against the Mubarak regime continues to defy the curfew, the police and the army (which have already been 125 deaths), the Egyptians in Paris had agreed to meet Saturday afternoon noon in front of their embassy for a rally in support of their compatriots. Despite the diplomatic stance of the French government who never ceases to call for "calm" and "restraint", the rally ended in blood and a hundred arrests. CRS motif: one had filed a request for permission to demonstrate.
is a real raid which took place Saturday evening on the Champs Elysees at the end of the rally in support of the Egyptians. Everything started off well: the call to community, 500 people had gathered at 14h before the Egyptian embassy in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, to protest against the dictatorship of Mubarak. A few meters the embassy, not "thugs" or "young excited," but of Egyptian families, Tunisians and political activists came to say their solidarity with the people of Cairo, Alexandria, Algeria and Gaza.
Many protesters were mainly from exchanging information on the situation in Egypt, telephone and internet being cut off for several days by a decision of the Egyptian government. Some shouted "Mubarak released!, Other singing, some climbed trees to hang the flags to the cheers of their comrades, while others burned an small photo of Mubarak printed on a sheet A4, and everyone welcomed this "breath of freedom" came from the Arab world. A good natured atmosphere, really. Many police
The presence of a half-dozen police cars and a few police cars around the metro Kleber, and the roadblock set up between them and their embassy by eight trucks of riot police had not seem to bother the protesters. No insults, no confrontation, no incident has occurred: the Egyptians were not there to demonstrate against the government. Some have even wondered what Olivier Besancenot was there with them. "We came to express our solidarity, we, too, even if it is not Egyptian," they replied militants NPA.
neither weapons nor angry nor excited, the Egyptians had not come to fight. On the contrary. Especially eager to do anything that might offend the French police, they hesitated long before your event and they wanted to be sure that it would "not interfere with the police." To 17h, finally, they formed a procession. The time they take the decision, the ranks had emptied considerably: some had left to the metro Ternes, others to Monceau, many had returned home because of the cold. Most political activists, especially, were gone. All that remained were the Egyptians and Tunisians, who are directed to one side of the street was not blocked by police.
A mousetrap in the middle of the Champs Elysees
A procession of 200 people has therefore set out to the Champs Elysees, he descended safely to the middle of the avenue, above the station George V. As in, the last political activists left the procession to reach the subway, but the Egyptians themselves, overcome by the excitement of their country, not thinking about going home.
When it became apparent that there were more whites in the event , dozens and dozens of police officers emerged, surrounding the protesters in the street level Bauchart Quentin. For thirty minutes, the CRS remained motionless, tightening the ranks of the protesters, preventing people to disperse, to leave or exit the demonstration. When protesters began to show signs of impatience, CRS sent them tear gel, which unlike gas does not evaporate: it permeates the skin or clothing, "optimizing" the burning sensation and difficulty breathing.
At least 5 injured and hundreds of arrests
stuffy and coughing, protesters tried to get out of this trap, but the policemen with truncheons content, back, legs and arms . As the police as lost or gained (depending on location), we could see protesters on the ground: a first receiving kicked by a policeman in the head and face was covered with blood, He did not move . A second was apparently lifeless girl kneeling next to him shook him. A third was on the ground, seized with convulsions. The police arrested the demonstrators with a vengeance and they formed the cord made visibility near zero: impossible to say how many were injured.
But soon, firefighters found themselves overwhelmed. Their truck was too small to mount all the wounded, the police commandeered the store on the Champs Elysees Toyota into a makeshift hospital. 20h to a string of CRS was installed outside the store (which is entirely glass) so that can not see what was happening inside. The wounded were later evacuated to the hospital Bichat, while those arrested were transported to the police. In total, the Champs Elysees and the Place des Ternes, the police made 97 arrests. To identity checks, since no protester has committed a crime .
CRS explain their intervention
Towards 21h, the NPA activists who had witnessed the whole scene, could provide the addresses of police stations where protesters were detained. A rally in support formed spontaneously outside the police station in the 18th arrondissement. According to an official with the police, 97 people were arrested, then released around 22:30. Always according to the police, there were no injuries. And the reason for these arrests and the burden of CRS, said a spokesman for the police, is: no one had filed prior authorization request for a demonstration and no route had been deposited from the prefecture of police.
Naularis Olympus.
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