The Paris police chief, Laurent Nuñez, announced on Monday March 11 that he had taken legal action when “projectiles and insults” were targeted at Jewish women from the Nous viverons collective, exfiltrated on Friday from the Parisian procession for the International Day of womens rights. “We have identified the perpetrators,” added the police prefect on France 2.
Describing this fact as “serious”, 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. This is intolerable,” he said.
On Friday, strong tensions erupted during the Parisian feminist demonstration. The slogans “Free the hostages” proclaimed by the collective were responded to by those of “Palestine will conquer” launched 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 [Jewish Community Protection Service], without causing any 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 is for burning cops and fascists,” protesters chanted. These are “unspeakable, intolerable remarks”, the police prefect was indignant. Those who uttered “these death threats” were “partisans of disorder” belonging “to the very probably ultra-left movement,” said Mr. Nuñez.
