A demonstration brought together Wednesday, June 28 in the evening in Paris many organizations, environmental movements, unions… who came to denounce the dissolution of the Uprisings of the Earth, and at the same time to demand “justice for Nahel”, a teenager killed the day before in Nanterre by a police officer. Marches were organized in Nantes and Marseille.
Along with the signs “We are the living that defends itself”, “Dissolution of Darmanin” or “Against the police state generalized uprising”, were mixed with signs “Our thoughts to the relatives of Nahel” or “Justice for Nahel”, also mentioned in interventions at the microphone.
In other processions across France in support of the Earth Uprisings we could also hear “Justice for Nahel”. At least several hundred people were present, sometimes wearing Solidarity flags, CGT, Greenpeace chasubles, representing Friends of the Earth or Right to Housing (DAL).
Appeal against the decree
On the microphone, a member of Extinction Rebellion quipped: “You don’t dissolve an uprising, you don’t dissolve the struggle of citizens to defend this land we all depend on, you can’t dissolve a rising tide.” “Where is the violence today? We won’t be intimidated! “, promised a member of Last Renovation.
National secretary of the Syndicate of the judiciary, Thibaut Spriet announced that the union would participate in the appeals against the decree dissolving the Uprisings of the Earth. “And we will continue to fight against the incessant invocation of the notion of terrorism, against the construction of a police state, against the denial of police violence,” he told the demonstrators.
The Uprisings of the Earth collective was dissolved on June 21 in the Council of Ministers, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, invoking its “major role in the design and dissemination of violent modus operandi”. The decision provoked a series of condemnations, particularly among defenders of fundamental freedoms.
