Zeal to protect the far right. Some 300 people, who had gathered Saturday to protest against a visit of Eric Zemmour in a cultural center of Villeurbanne, were pushed back by the police on Saturday. The prefecture had banned any demonstration in front of the room of the CCVA (cultural center and associative life) where the former candidate for the presidential election was to hold in the early afternoon a signing session for his book I did not say my last word. The police, present in number, used tear gas to remove the demonstrators, who chanted "Zemmour break yourself!", managing to confine them outside the forbidden perimeter, a hundred meters from the entrance of the room.
Eric Zemmour's visit to Villeurbanne was initially banned by the city's socialist town hall for fear of excesses. But the municipal decree, immediately attacked by a "summary freedom" of Reconquest, had been suspended Friday by the administrative court of Lyon. "I take note of the decision of the administrative judge. As soon as they decide to maintain their event, I call on the organizers to be responsible, "had reacted in a statement the mayor PS of this adjoining commune of Lyon, Cédric Van Styvendael, before calling "the greatest calm".
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