Nearly two-thirds of those placed in police custody on the sidelines of the May 1 demonstration, Monday in Paris, were released without prosecution, according to a report communicated this Wednesday, May 3 to AFP by the Paris prosecutor’s office.
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“281 people were taken into custody” within the framework of this demonstration, recalled the public ministry, specifying in this report established in the middle of the day Wednesday that “124 gave rise to a classification decision without further action” et “56 gave rise to a summons or a presentation before the prosecutor’s delegate for an alternative measure to prosecution”.
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Nine of these police custody resulted in a criminal order, twelve were presented to magistrates for subsequent correctional hearings, also indicated the prosecution. Eleven people in police custody were to appear immediately.
“Preventive” police custody, according to associations and lawyers
According to an AFP journalist present at the Paris Court of Justice on Wednesday afternoon, around ten cases have been heard today, but the dismissal of a large majority of them at a later date has been requested, such as right in this type of procedure.
According to the prosecution, 46 police custody measures were still in progress on Wednesday after extension, while 23 police custody had been lifted in order to continue investigations in the form of preliminary investigations.
Many lawyers and human rights defenders have denounced since the beginning of the demonstrations against the pension reform arrests and police custody “preventive”.
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“Serious violations of fundamental rights”
Last episode to date, the comptroller general of places of deprivation of liberty Dominique Simonnot denounced in a letter of April 17 addressed to the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and revealed on Wednesday “serious violations of fundamental rights” by the police during police custody in Paris.
Dominique Simonnot believes that there was a “massive appeal” by the police to this type of measure, “deprivation of liberty for the purpose of maintaining public order”.
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On March 21, the Defender of Rights Claire Hédon was also alarmed by these arrests.
A total of 540 people were arrested in France, including 305 in Paris, during the May Day demonstrations, Gérald Darmanin said on Tuesday, adding that 406 police and gendarmes had been injured on national territory.
