“A real virus, it’s racism”, “No justice, no peace”, “Stop racism” or “Stop killing blacks”, could be read on the posters this Friday, plac.
“A real virus, it’s racism”, “No justice, no peace”, “Stop racism” or “Stop killing blacks”, could be read on the posters this Friday at Kléber.
thousands of young people dressed in black gathered on Friday night in the heart of Strasbourg to pay tribute to George Floyd, say no to racism and condemn police violence, an AFP journalist revealed.
Responding to an appeal published on social networks, there were 3,500 according to the prefecture, from 4 to 5,000 according to the organizers, the Kléber meeting place, the beating heart of the Alsatian capital, ahead of many other calls to protest that were published across France on Saturday.
“Stop killing black people”
On boxes made to look forward and waved by dozens of protesters, these words: “real virus, it’s racism”, “No justice, no peace” (No justice, no peace), “Stop racism” or “Stop killing black people” Stop killing black people).
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“Black Lives Matter” (Black Lives Matter) was also proclaimed on many posters, reflecting the rallying cry of the movement against racist violence launched in the United States by the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American who died during an arrest, suffocated by a police officer in Minneapolis . Mostly hidden, the young people of Strasbourg first spoke out quietly before hearing bursts of applause and some taking the floor on a megaphone.
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Calls for Saturday’s protest against “police violence” were also launched in several French cities, such as Paris, Bordeaux, Nantes, Limoges, Poitiers, Marseille or Lille, despite the ban on gatherings of more than ten people due to health crises.
On Tuesday, a demonstration banned by the prefect of police gathered at least 20,000 people in Paris at the invitation of a committee to support the family of Adame Traoré, a young black man who died in 2016 after being arrested by gendarmes. “Justice for Adam,” the local protester also wrote on her sign.
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In Clermont-Ferrand, several hundred people also held a rally this Friday, a little after 6 p.m. in a place in the center of the city at the invitation this time from the collective for justice and truth for Wissam El Yamni, who died in this city in 2012 after the police arrested under controversial circumstances.
Updated date: June 6, 2020, 5:58 a.m
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