Police and protesters clashed in Paris near the National Assembly on Tuesday, at the end of a rally that was organized to enforce the denunciation of the proposed “global security” law, according to reports.
Police officers used water cannons and tear gas to disorganize the protesters who reportedly destroyed street furniture. It was also confirmed that at about 9:30 pm the last person among the protesters was nowhere to be found around the premises of the National Assembly.
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🔴 Manifestation face à l’Assemblée nationale à #Paris, notamment contre la #PPLSecuriteGlobale. Un important dispositif de sécurité mis en place, des rues barricadées.
En direct ici ⤵️ infos là ➡️https://t.co/kJ4Bh1WvFP #directAN pic.twitter.com/BnOaHt2bil
— actu Paris (@actufrparis) November 17, 2020
🔴 Manifestation face à l’Assemblée nationale à #Paris, notamment contre la #PPLSecuriteGlobale. Un important dispositif de sécurité mis en place, des rues barricadées.
En direct ici ⤵️ infos là ➡️https://t.co/kJ4Bh1WvFP #directAN pic.twitter.com/BnOaHt2bil
— actu Paris (@actufrparis) November 17, 2020
According to a HuffPost report, the protesters were made up of “yellow vests”, activists of left-wing groups, high school students. The police had blocked the situation from escalating for about two hours on the Boulevard Saint-Germain where the tension rose with the law enforcement.
#Toulouse ce soir une foule immense 👏 #LoiSecuriteGlobale#StopLoiSécuritéGlobale pic.twitter.com/k5SvExapNN
— L’infirmier 💙 (@Infirmier0) November 17, 2020
The protesters were disagreeing with article 24 of the bill brought by LREM and its ally Agir, which got the attention of lawmakers on Tuesday. The highly controversial article provides for one year jail time and a fine of 45,000 euros for the dissemination of “the image of the face or any other element of identification” of a police officer or a gendarme in intervention, when the purpose is to “undermine his physical or mental integrity”.
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Some Journalists who endorsed the protest in support of other Human Right activists, Amnesty International and other organizations such as Reporters Without Borders argues that it amounts to banning journalists and citizens from filming the police in action and wouldn’t allow proper documentation of police brutality.
