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• Direct Thousands of people began to demonstrate in Orléans against the National Rally congress
In anticipation of this gathering, the municipality closed the tourist office, the media library, parks and gardens, and ordered restaurants not to open their terraces. The trams are stopped and traffic is prohibited in the historic heart.
What you need to know
In the middle of a day of mobilization across France against the high cost of living, Orléans (Loiret) hosts the National Rally congress. On this occasion, opponents organized, Saturday October 24, a demonstration "against racism, fascism and imperialism" and "against the RN and its deadly ideas", which took place at the end of the morning in the streets of the city. In the crowd, notably present are the socialist Olivier Faure, the LFI mayor of Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), Bally Bagayoko, and the general secretary of the CGT, Sophie Binet. Authorities expect up to 30,000 people on this route, which has been modified to avoid the city center. Follow our live stream.
A nighttime curfew established for those under 15 years old. The mayor (various right) of the city, Serge Grouard, announced in the morning the establishment of a curfew throughout the town for the next two nights for minors under 15 years old. “This preventive measure is part of the desire to prevent any disturbance to public order, to limit the risks of excesses and to guarantee the safety of people in the context of announced gatherings,” he said in a press release.
“France is anti-fascist,” says the LFI mayor of Saint-Denis. Speaking before the demonstration, Bally Bagayoko, mayor of Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), declared that he would find himself "in all circumstances" alongside "those who stand up against racism".
A conference under high security. Nearly 3,000 members of the police, who have two Centaur armored vehicles, water-throwing vehicles, helicopters and drones, are mobilized in particular to contain the “2,000 to 3,000 radical elements” who could blend in, according to the authorities.
Downtown Orléans barricaded. The windows were covered with plywood, while some traders lowered the curtain for the weekend. The municipality closed the tourist office, the media library, parks and gardens, and ordered restaurants not to open their terraces. The trams are at a standstill, traffic prohibited in the historic heart.
A congress to re-elect Jordan Bardella. Inside the Zénith d'Orléans, 5,000 RN activists and executives will meet from 2:30 p.m. to re-elect their president Jordan Bardella, the only candidate for his succession. Members must also renew the party's internal authorities. The RN candidate for the presidential election, Marine Le Pen, is organizing her first major campaign meeting on Sunday.
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#PRESIDENTIAL The demonstration against the holding of an RN congress in Orléans (Loiret) is starting immediately. You can follow our live stream on this subject here.
grumbled
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#PRESIDENTIAL Scandalous that the left is demonstrating against the RN while we are in a democracy and that the hatred, violence and racism come from small far-left groups including LFI.
Response from Mathilde Goupil
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Hello @roncha, you are obviously free to think what you want. I would nevertheless like to point out that several far-right candidates or elected officials have already been convicted of racist offenses. The RN presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, in any case shares your opinion on the demonstration. “Did the RN once organize a meeting to counter the congress of a union like the CGT?” she was indignant on franceinfo on Wednesday.
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#TRAPPES "We are here because we are upset by what happened yesterday [in Trappes], says Sophie Binet, general secretary of the CGT from the procession against the RN congress in Orléans (Loiret). (...) It is a racist terrorist attack, we have once again confirmation that racism and anti-Semitism kill in our country. This violence does not come from nowhere, it comes from speeches (...) essentially from the extreme right. (...) The RN will never be a party like the others." #PRESIDENTIAL
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“Hate speech, xenophobic speech which has been the prerogative of the far right for decades, can also inspire the most violent and murderous acts as we saw yesterday in Trappes,” also assures Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the PS.
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#PRESIDENTIAL Orléans (Loiret) is hosting the National Rally congress this weekend and is preparing for a record demonstration this morning, on the eve of Marine Le Pen's first major campaign meeting. The authorities expect up to 30,000 people from 10:30 a.m., on a modified route to avoid the city center. Here are the first images of the procession preparing to set off.
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#TRAPPES Many left-wing political and union leaders are present in Orléans for the demonstration against the RN congress: the LFI mayor of Saint-Denis Bally Bagayoko, the mayor of Trappes (Générations), Ali Rabeh, but also the deputy of the environmental group Clémentine Autain, the secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, and Sophie Binet, general secretary of the CGT.
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#PRESIDENTIAL The LFI mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, speaks from Orléans (Loiret), where a demonstration "against racism, fascism and imperialism", but also "against the RN and its deadly ideas" is organized from 10:30 a.m. The National Rally is in fact organizing a congress this weekend in the town, with Marine Le Pen due to speak tomorrow.
(FRANCEINFO)
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#TRAPPES The mayor of Seine-Saint-Denis promises to always be “next to” those “who stand up against fascism”. The racist attack in Trappes, which occurred yesterday, is "not the first, but the umpteenth xenophobic racist attack which means that from now on we must act", he adds. “We are not condemned to end up in the arms of the extreme right, [LFI] is the solution,” he finally says.
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We immediately take a first look at current events:
• #PROTESTS Yellow vests, unions, high school students and students march during a new day of mobilization. Here are their demands, and the responses that have been provided so far by the government.
• #PROTESTS Yesterday, the Paris police headquarters banned the route of the authorized demonstration between Bastille and Nation and imposed another route, between Porte d'Italie and Porte de Vincennes. The inter-union filed a summary judgment to contest this change and announced that it was maintaining the initial meeting point.
• #TRAPPES One person was killed and five others were injured in a racist terrorist attack committed in Trappes and La Verrière. Two people were taken into custody, the suspect and his mother. The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office has taken up the facts.
• #PRESIDENTIAL Marine Le Pen is giving her first major campaign meeting tomorrow in Orléans (Loiret), as a candidate of the National Rally for the presidential election. A record demonstration, with up to 30,000 people expected by the authorities, is to take place this morning "against racism, fascism and imperialism".
