VIDEO – Despite a prefectural prohibition, anti-migrant demonstration has place Saturday afternoon in the city. Twenty people were arrested after clashes with riot police.
About 150 people gathered Saturday afternoon to Calais railway station and shouted slogans such as “we’re home!”, “State dictator”, “migrants outside” or “collaborators journalists!”. “Around 12:30, groups began to circulate in the city center, mainly of ultra neo-Nazi type of right. Seven of them were arrested at the beginning, then a rally was made before a brewery of the station, “said Etienne Desplanques, Chief of Staff of the prefect of Pas-de-Calais.
clashes broke out around 13:30 between the police and people gathered at the initiative of Islamophobic movement hostile to Pegida migrants. The authorities there have asked first dispersing the rally prior to the charges in the parade and perform firing tear gas. Nearly twenty arrests have already occurred, including that of General Christian Thornton reveals North Coast . “We are in the same fight, I understand your presence, but not you load us, “and said the CRS former military while calling on protesters to” win. ”
According to the prefecture, those arrested were sent to the Commission for examination of their situation and their possible placement in custody. Around 14:30, the protesters dispersed peacefully.
Despite the prefectural prohibition decided by the Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, the movement of the extreme right European Patriots against the Islamization of West (Pegida) was determined to maintain his protest Saturday in Calais against the presence of migrants. Despite the criminal penalties. For fear of excesses and to “ensure enforce the prefectural” an important safety device had been scheduled, said the prefecture of Pas-de-Calais.
In their statement of protest, the organizers had announced Pegida 800 to 1000 people. With a protester brand, unexpected, which makes the joy of movement: the General Corps Christian Thornton, fighting elite who commissioned the Foreign Legion from 1994 to 1999 and has long chaired the National paratroopers Union ( UNP). He drafted a statement announcing his arrival in Calais, revolted by the prefectural ban. According to local reports, he was arrested on Saturday at the rally.
“Given the ras-le-bol, sooner or later it will end very badly and I think everyone is aware”
proportional to the risk of overflows, the prefectural prohibition took a large amplitude: on schedules, Saturday 9:00 to Sunday 9 am, several municipalities in the region (Sangatte, Coquelles, Frethun, and Coulogne Marck-en-Calais), and “other gathering relating to the migration situation in Calais.” What matters for Pegida who “wants to come to Calais to protest the invasion that suffers daily, attacks on stoning, theft and so on,” said Loïc Perdriel in the press. “It’s getting worse every day, he added, and it is not about to stop. Given the anger of the people, the ras-le-bol people, sooner or later it will end very badly and I think everyone is aware. ” For him, Pegida was “absolutely arrive in France” because “the battle against Islamization is (…) the most important thing today, we see that the mosques are mushrooming, funded by the State” .
Born in Germany, Pediga a French branch since January 2015. Launched by the far-right ideologue Renaud Camus, it is now run by Loïc Perdriel, which campaigns for the immediate dismissal of all migrants, “even though their country is at war.” This anti-Islam movement was created in October 2014 by German Lutz Bachmann, former offender convicted of robberies and drug trafficking. The political organization advocates the fight against “the Islamisation of the West” and the desire to “preserve and protect German identity.” In Germany, Pegida of the protests have attracted tens of thousands of people in the city of Dresden. But they also held every Monday night in Cologne, Düsseldorf, Bochum, Munich, Würzburg, Rostock, or Bonn, copying the mode of action used before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
several actions in France
in France, before his will to manifest this Saturday in Calais, the French section of Pegida has already organized several actions on the territory. The first event took place on November 8 in Calais, without prohibition of the prefecture. She had met a hundred demonstrators around other factions of the ultra-right to say “We will not give the keys of Calais” to migrants. At its conclusion, the prosecutor had opened an investigation after a book of the Koran had escaped being burned.
Pegida also tried to hold a rally Jan. 18, 2015, after the attacks, instead of the Bourse in Paris. But the police headquarters had forbidden, forcing the organizers and demonstrators to hold a press conference at the discretion of a hotel near the Opera. The security service was provided by members of the Bloc identity, far-right splinter group formed after the dissolution of radical Unit, one of whose members had tried to shoot Jacques Chirac in 2002. At this conference, Melanie Dittmer came featured guest. Representative of the German movement Pediga, the young 36 year old woman wore a flak jacket with a badge “I’m Charlie Martel.”
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