Netherlands booed, 73 arrests in Paris

 

Ceremonies on November 11 on the Champs-Elysées were disrupted Monday by groups of demonstrators from boo Francois Hollande , leading to clashes with security forces have arrested 73 people for released 69 of them after checking their identity and held in custody in the evening for the other four.

In full political and social turmoil, the lowest in the polls – two new studies the place to record unpopularity, between 21 and 22% positive reviews – the President had launched Thursday commemorations of the centenary of the First World War by calling the French to gather.

Incidents Monday largely wasted his first outing as part of the ceremonies.

In the afternoon Oyonnax (Ain), where he paid tribute to the resistance of 1943, the Head of State said that the Republic should “never yield to the pressure,” “nothing pass against the hatred, the intolerance.”

demonstrations of hostility to the Head of State as virulent as those that occurred in Paris are exceptional in this type of memorials dedicated to the memory.

A November 11 also marked by a dramatic event: Châteaurenard (Bouches-du-Rhône), a man obviously unbalanced injured in stabbing the UMP deputy mayor Bernard Reynes and two councilors.

A Paris The tribute, in glorious sunshine, “to all who died for France” started well before being jostled by dozens of demonstrators. Right-wing activists in leather jackets and demonstrators wearing the red cap opponents Breton to environmental taxes have sometimes violently booed the head of state, “Holland resignation, thy law we do not want it!”

Manuel Valls, Minister of the Interior, immediately denounced activists “linked to the extreme right” and described the incident as “unacceptable, intolerable.” A widely shared but also left part of the right, the image of the head of the UMP Jean-Francois Cope who found “very unfortunate” that “mixing genres a day like November 11″ conviction.

The law “must be the same” for all

According to the prefecture of police, 73 people who had gathered to call “the French Spring” peak against gay marriage, and “right-wing extremist groups, including the French revival “were arrested. Four people were taken into custody.

Bystanders came to attend the ceremonies were sometimes shouted their anger against the protesters: “You do not have the right to exploit November 11 this is the shame of France.” Then calmed down around noon on the Champs-Elysées after the departure of the official procession.

The president of the National Front, Marine Le Pen, denounced “arbitrary” arrests of activists and Frontists denied responsibility for the incident.

For PS, the first secretary Harlem Desir condemned “the disorders caused by extremists” who “insulted our national memory.”

The Left Party “condemns with the utmost solemnity shouts of the extreme right during the ceremony of 11 November in Paris “written on its side in a statement Eric Coquerel, national secretary of PG.

After the ceremony, the head of state has been to lunch at the Elysee families of French soldiers killed in operation in the past year. Seven French soldiers have been killed since the beginning of the Serval operation in Mali in January.

cornflower in his buttonhole, Hollande then went to Oyonnax a tribute to cross the fighters of 1914-1918 and the resistance of the Second World War. On 11 November 1943, 200 guerrillas of the Ain and Haut-Jura marched to the war memorial in the city, to lay a wreath with the inscription “The winners of tomorrow than in 14-18.”

In a speech to a quarter of an hour, the head of state has continued to make the link between the past, including the achievement of resistance he came commemorate, and the difficulties of the current period. “France is still able to meet even the worst trials”, “I will never accept that it is divided,” said the head of state, hammering that the law should “be the same for the entire world “and should be respected” everywhere.” Allusion supported social conflicts underway, including in Britain.

In a warm atmosphere – despite a few whistles, including leaving the hall after the ceremony Oyonnax – Francois Hollande shook hands and praised extensively former resistant. 89 years old today, one of them, “Jo” in the Resistance, regretted the demonstrations against the president: “It’s silly, it’s there, and he does what he can this n. is not a day to make a fuss.”

Netherlands booed, 73 arrests in Paris