“Palestine will live, Palestine will win.” About 150 people gathered in central Lyon on Monday “in support of the Palestinian resistance” before being quickly dispersed by police. The demonstration was banned on Monday morning by the Rhône prefecture due to “the risk of disturbing public order”. According to the prefecture, four people were arrested before the meeting and eight were fined for “prohibited demonstration.”
The rally, broadcast by various far-left and anti-fascist organizations, was organized after the start of Hamas’ surprise offensive in Israel by a collective called La Fosse aux Lyons, a name reminiscent of the Palestinian armed group Fosse aux Lyons. Lions” operating in the West Bank. “We forget to say that the radicalization of these groups is the oppression of the State of Israel,” a young demonstrator with a Covid mask on his face, holding a sign reading “Silence in Gaza we kill,” explained to AFP.
“Everyone hates Israel”
“Of course, I am against such actions and ideas of Hamas, but I view everything that can free the Palestinian people from the crime of apartheid from a positive point of view,” he continued. The demonstrators, who waved Palestinian flags and shouted “Palestine will live, Palestine will win,” “Israel get out of the way, Palestine is not yours,” “Everyone hates Israel,” were dispersed by successive accusations from the mobile gendarmes. are also present in large quantities as a result of the use of tear gas.
Sanctioned rallies in support of Israel and victims of Hamas attacks took place peacefully in other parts of the country. According to the police department, 16,000 people marched in pairs at the head of the procession under a banner reading “Terrorism, here, there, same fight, support Israel.”
In Marseille, a city home to one of the largest Jewish and Muslim communities in France, about 500 people, mostly elderly, gathered silently in front of the prefecture. No banners or signs, just two large French flags and two large Israeli flags. Five hundred people also in Bordeaux, in front of the great synagogue, 250 in Tours in front of the stela of Yitzhak Rabin, in the courtyard of the town hall, several hundred in Lille.
Source: Le Parisien
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