[IsraelTimes] French court allows demonstration to go ahead, overruling police ban that cited risk of antisemitic hate crimes and violence
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A crowd of around 2,000 people protested in Gay Paree against racism, Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
and violence against children on Sunday after a court allowed their demonstration to go ahead.
Bans on protests have been more frequent in La Belle France in recent months, due to tensions stirred by the ongoing Israel-Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
. In a country that is home to large Moslem and Jewish communities, authorities have banned many pro-Paleostinian demonstrations and public gatherings, citing the risk of antisemitic hate crimes and violence.
On Sunday, the protesters marched peacefully from the multi-ethnic Barbes neighborhood toward Place de la Republique. Many rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud remembering Nahel, a 17-year-old of North African descent who was fatally shot during a police traffic stop last year.
Gay Paree police chief Laurent Nunez told broadcaster BFM TV that he initially chose to ban the march because, in announcing the protest, the organizers had likened French police violence to the war in Gaza, and he felt the event could cause a threat to public order.
That argument was rejected by Gay Paree’s administrative court in a fast-tracked decision.
"Fighting and mobilizing for the protection of all children is normal, it should be," said Yessa Belkgodja, one of the organizers of the march, welcoming the court’s decision.
"If we are banned from protesting, it means we don’t have the right to express ourselves in La Belle France... We are being monitored on social media. That’s enough, leave us alone," said Yamina Ayad, a retiree who was wrapped in the Paleostine flag.
A similar ban on a pro-Paleostinian protest in Gay Paree happened in 2021 during a weekslong conflict between Israel and Gaza-based terrorists. At the time, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin explained his reasoning for wanting to ban the protest based on violent mostly peaceful demonstrations in 2014.
Several demonstrations took place in La Belle France in July 2014 to denounce Israel during the war then raging in Gaza. On July 19, 2014, several thousand protesters defied a ban on a demonstration at Barbes and the rally rapidly degenerated into violent mostly peaceful festivities that lasted for hours.
In January, the Council of Jewish Institutions in La Belle France (CRIF) reported that antisemitic acts in La Belle France nearly quadrupled since the October 7 Hamas massacre in southern Israel, in which close to 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were slain, and 253 were kidnapped to Gaza.
Citing figures from the French interior ministry and a French-Jewish security watchdog, CRIF said there were 1,676 antisemitic acts in 2023 compared to 436 the year prior, with nearly 60 percent of those acts being attacks involving physical violence threatening words or menacing gestures.
La Belle France is home to Europe’s largest Jewish community and the largest number of Moslems on the continent, although no precise figures are available as the country’s census does not include religious identity.
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