2,500 people gathered in front of TF1 headquarters to demonstrate against Benyamin Netanyahu’s interview on LCI
Up to 2,500 people gathered Thursday evening in front of the TF1 headquarters, in Boulogne-Billancourt, in the Paris suburbs, at the height of the evening, according to the police headquarters. They were protesting against the broadcast on the LCI group’s news channel of an interview with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Wearing keffiyehs and Palestinian flags, the demonstrators, the first of whom arrived before 7 p.m. near the tower where TF1 and LCI are located, came in three processions, noted a journalist from Agence France-Presse. Some of them blocked the George-Pompidou expressway.
Unable to reach the tower, isolated by a large police force, they gathered in a single group, surrounded by a cordon of police, in a good-natured atmosphere, to cries of “Gaza, Gaza, Paris is with you”, “A ceasefire now” or “Murdering Israel”.
The gathering took place without incident. At the dispersion, “a few dozen demonstrators gathered near the Saint-Lazare station, where the police prevented the formation of wild processions”a police source explained to Agence France-Presse, noting a return to normal around midnight.
Another demonstration took place on Thursday in Paris to protest against the presence of Israeli companies at the Eurosatory arms fair. In Marseille, 300 people gathered in the evening, according to the police headquarters, without incident to report at 10 p.m. In Nice, the organizers of a rally in front of the town hall taking place every Saturday since November announced that it would now be daily, as long as the Israeli flags remained on the building’s front.