French authorities on Tuesday denied any wrongful arrests during the recent protests in Paris against the country’s pension reform, as denounced by the opposition.
“There are no unjustified arrests, I can’t allow that”Paris police chief Patrick Nuñez told BFMTV television, as unions of lawyers, magistrates and left-wing politicians denounced “arbitrary” police detention.
According to the latest consolidated report from the Paris prosecutor’s office, 425 people were detained by police during the first three nights of spontaneous demonstrations, between Thursday and Saturday, but only 52 were prosecuted at the end of the trial.
Figures for Sunday and Monday evening are not yet available, according to the public prosecutor’s office.
A total of 287 people, including 234 in Paris, were arrested in France on Monday evening in the fifth consecutive night of spontaneous demonstrations against the government’s decision to pass the pension reform without a vote in the assembly, a source revealed to AFP. desk.
Claire Hédon, responsible for defending the rights of citizens in France, admitted to being “concerned” about the consequences of preventive detention, synonymous with deprivation of liberty, and recalled the ethical rules in maintaining order.
Source: DN
