WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, UCL AL #340 - Police violence, the savagery of Macronist repression (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Arbitrary arrests, mutilations, prosecutions... The apparatus of

administrative, police and judicial repression mobilized means of
unprecedented violence, also used against environmental mobilizations,
or in Mayotte during Operation Wuambushu. ---- The movement did not
escape repression. Its unprecedented character surely lies in the
unanimous condemnations of human rights defenders in the face of
illiberal practices. Thus the repressive arsenal has been characterized
by the use of authoritarian administrative techniques, brutal police
techniques and disproportionate sentences handed down by the courts.
Authoritarianism is marked by reinforced administrative control. A first
phase consisted in preventing the course of demonstrations coming too
close to places of power or city centers. A second phase began with the
anti-casserolade decrees and the use of techniques dedicated to the
control of terrorism against demonstrations. The most amazing thing was
all the same to see the Minister of the Interior, Darmanin, threatening
to dissolve the Uprisings of the Earth or an organization as untouchable
- in a state of law - as the League for the Rights of Man! The
requisitions of strikers in the refineries complete this device of
administrative repression of the social movement.

80% of police custody classified without follow-up
Arbitrary arrests, without cause, have multiplied. According to a census
of the Comptroller General of places of deprivation of liberty on May 3,
2023, 80% of police custody have been closed without further action. In
Paris on March 16, 292 people were arrested for no reason. In addition,
police charges against processions punctuated demonstrations, as well as
drone control, such as on May 1. Serious injuries and mutilations have
multiplied, such as on March 23 in Paris where a railway worker was
blinded by a disencirclement grenade. The great ecological convergence
of Sainte-Soline, on March 25, suffered unprecedented violence: police
in quads firing LBDs, 5,000 grenades fired, 200 injured. In addition,
blocking actions and pickets have sometimes come under police attack,
for example during the garbage collectors' strike in Paris. The live
ammunition of Operation Wuambushu crowned this savagery. Arrests,
immediate appearances and unjustified sentences multiply after the
demonstrations. The criminal courts conduct political trials against
acts of strike or blocking actions, as in the Loiret where 44 strikers
are prosecuted for illegal exercise of the right to strike, or simple
tags " Stop 64 " as in Amiens, or even towards activists who chased the
far right from the processions, like the comrades of UCL Ain (see page
18), who will win their trial. In the face of repression, class (and
financial!) solidarity is imperative, as is the anti-fascist struggle.
Winning an amnesty for all the condemned would be a victory for the
social movement. Oriane (UCL Grenoble)

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