Posted on 05/16/2021 3:43:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Police in Paris on Saturday fired tear gas and aimed water cannons at protesters defying a ban on marching against Israeli attacks on Gaza, dispersing demonstrators gathering in groups of several hundred. Paris police said they made 44 arrests and that one officer was injured breaking up a gathering of protesters.
Between 2,500 and 3,500 protesters converged on the heavily immigrant Barbès neighbourhood in the north of Paris, according to interior ministry figures, amid a security presence of involving some 4,200 officers.
"We refuse to silence our solidarity with the Palestinians, and we will not be prevented from demonstrating," the organisers of the Paris march – the Association of Palestinians in Ile-de-France, the wider Paris region, and other groups said in a statement.
They include anti-fascist associations, the citizens' activist group Attac and the far-left New Anti-Capitalist party.
Large pro-Palestinian crowds protested in Strasbourg in the east and Marseille on the Mediterranean coast.
Thousands also marched in the Spanish capital Madrid, where protesters chanted “This is not war, this is genocide!” in Spanish, with some people holding up homemade signs that read ““USA Terrorist State” and “Muslim Lives Matter.”
In Berlin, police broke up a pro-Palestinian protest of 3,500 people for failure to comply with coronavirus distancing rules. Protesters responded by throwing stones, bottles and fireworks.
In London, protesters marched on the Israeli Embassy after marching through Hyde Park chanting “Free Palestine”, watched by a large number of police.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
Water cannons get them wet, they go home, dry out and are back again the next day. Flame throwers, on the other hand....
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