The Paris police prefect, Laurent Nuñez, announced on Monday March 11 that he had taken legal action while “throwing projectiles and insults” targeted Jewish women from the collective We will live, exfiltrated on Friday from the Parisian procession for International Women’s Rights Day. “We have identified the perpetrators”added the police chief on France 2.
Describing this fact as ” severe “he explained that there had been “first insults, then throwing projectiles” against members of this collective, created the day after the Hamas attack on October 7 against Israel. “We had to extract, exfiltrate this collective. It’s intolerable “he said.
On Friday, strong tensions erupted during the Parisian feminist demonstration. To the slogans “Free the hostages” proclaimed by the collective responded those of ” Palestine will win “ thrown by other demonstrators.
Calls to kill police officers
Invectives were exchanged between the two groups, which briefly degenerated into shoving and punching between members of the pro-Israel security service and pro-Palestinian activists. The police intervened to allow the departure of the procession of We will live activists. According to the police headquarters, “three hundred pro-Palestinian activists opposed two hundred members of the SPCJ security service [Service de protection de la communauté juive]without causing injuries ».
Mr. Nuñez returned to calls to kill police officers made during this same demonstration and for which the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, took legal action on Sunday. “Kerosene is not for planes, it’s for burning cops and fascists”, protesters chanted. These are “unspeakable, intolerable comments”, the police chief was indignant. Those who uttered “these death threats” were “partisans of disorder” belonging “very probably the ultra-left movement”said Mr. Nuñez.