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Police fired water canons and tear gas at groups of protesters during another anti-security bill protest in Nantes, on Tuesday.
Clashes broke out at the end of the demonstration and the police used water cannons and tear gas canisters.
Protesters rallying against the prolonged closure of cultural venues, as part of COVID-19 restrictions also held a torchlit march through the city to the Graslin theatre. The two protests started separately and merged into one.
Thousands of demonstrators have continued taking to the streets of France despite the government’s announcement that it would rewrite Article 24 of the law, the provision that restricts the filming of police officers, following weeks of protests.
The law in its current form makes it illegal to disseminate images in which police officers can be personally identified, among other things. The bill has been heavily criticised by activists and journalists who say it violates freedom of the press, as well as by UN humans rights experts who have said the bill runs afoul of international law.
SOT, Pierre, Protester (French): “We think that it is very serious to take advantage of the health crisis to reduce freedoms and we think that there are already enough laws that allow us to control what is happening. It is not necessary to add more and there it can be used in a massive way in an extremely undemocratic sense afterwards.”
SOT, Anuk, protester (French): “I believe that as long as the police are armed as they are, as long as we teach them how to do their job as we teach them, there will be no freedoms for us.”
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