Pro-Palestinian rioters in Paris defy ban on demonstrations
After last week's demonstrations that resulted in clashes with police in front of two Paris synagogues, French President Francois Hollande issued a ban on demonstrations this weekend for Paris and the Mediterranean port of Nice.
Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators defied the ban, clashing with police, setting a car on fire, and chanting "Israel, assassin."
A Reuters photographer said demonstrators in northern Paris launched projectiles at riot police, who responded by firing teargas canisters and stun grenades.
Demonstrators also climbed on top of a building and burned an Israeli flag. At least one car was set on fire.
A police spokesman said that 38 demonstrators had been arrested by early evening and that the clashes were dying down.
French President Francois Hollande said he understood emotional responses to the killing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in a flare-up of hostilities with Israel but would not allow violence to spill over into France.
"That's why I asked the interior minister, after an investigation, to ensure that such protests would not take place," he told journalists during a visit to Chad.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve justified bans in Paris, the Sarcelles suburb and the Mediterranean city of Nice by saying the security risk was too great, prompting outrage from left-wing and pro-Palestinian groups.
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He had asked police in cities to examine security risks city by city and, where necessary, to issue ban orders.
The far-left New Anticapitalist Party, an organizer of last Sunday's rally and the banned one in Paris, urged protesters in Paris to defy the ban, prompting police to issue a warning.
"Those who do not respect the ban, in support of protests or against them, face the risk of being stopped, arrested and handed over to the courts," Paris police said in a statement.
However, large crowds defied the warning and gathered in the capital chanting "Israel, assassin" in front of police barricades. Rallies were also held in more than a dozen other cities, from Lille in the north to Marseille in the South.
"This ban on demonstrations, which was decided at the last minute, actually increases the risk of public disorder," the Greens Party said in a statement. "It's a first in Europe."
Hollande is facing criticism from both flanks, with the far left accusing him of favoring Israel in the Gaza conflict while the far right says his weak policies encourages lawlessness from immigrants. Hollande's approval ratings are the lowest of any leader in Europe and this outbreak of violence certainly isn't going to help.
There were dozens of protests across the rest of Europe by pro-Palestinian groups, most of them peaceful. And it isn't just the Muslims marching. Far left parties all over Europe have made common cause with the immigrants, siding with Hamas in the conflict.
The irony of siding with terrorists appears to escape them.
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