ban on all gatherings this weekend in 4 municipalities in Drôme | EUROtoday

The Drôme prefecture introduced, Monday, November 25, that it could ban a collection of gatherings deliberate for subsequent weekend in reminiscence of younger Thomas, killed a yr in the past within the village of Crépol, for worry of “significant disturbances” to public order.

A small ultra-right group known as “Justice for Ours” known as for a gathering on November 19 in Romans-sur-Isère, a yr to the day after the homicide, however in the end postponed its name till November 30, after protests from the near the younger man. The collective introduced Monday midday on social networks “the filing of a summary liberty order” to contest the prefecture’s order.

For a number of days, its members have been distributing leaflets in Romans-sur-Isère and the encircling space calling for folks to return collectively in reminiscence of Thomas and one other younger man, Nicolas Dumas, a participant in the identical rugby membership as {the teenager}, killed in early November in entrance of a discotheque within the division, which they describe as “victims of immigration”.

Political “recovery”

Denouncing the political exploitation of those two deaths, left-wing associations or organizations wished to arrange a counter-demonstration. “This recovery has been the subject of numerous leaflets, letters and public declarations for several weeks, raising fears of significant unrest and ideological clashes in Romans-sur-Isère, Bourg-de-Péage, Crépol and Valence”writes the prefecture in a press launch.

Consequently, the prefect of Drôme determined to ban these two demonstrations, and extra broadly all gatherings, from 8 a.m. Saturday to eight p.m. Sunday in these 4 cities, having slogans linked to the 2 deaths or the rationale “the fight against racism, hatred, francocide, insecurity or immigration”.

The demise of Thomas, a 16-year-old highschool pupil stabbed throughout violence on the finish of a village dance, had infected the political class, with the precise and the far proper seizing the topic to denounce rising insecurity within the countryside. based on them, coming from the delicate suburbs. A number of days after the homicide, ultra-right activists organized an indication resembling a punitive expedition within the Monnaie district of Romans, the place among the fourteen folks indicted got here from.