Paris France. Crowd, Far Left Anti-Fa, Demonstrators, at Demonstration in Memory of Assassinated Leftist Militant, Clement Méric.
Some 40,000 Activists "anti-fascist" protesters, and non-aligned sympathizers, marched on Saturday afternoon in Paris and Toulouse in honor of ther young left-wing activist Clement Meric, died after being severely beaten in a fight with skinheads. In Paris, about 35,000 people, marched peacefully between Chemin Vert in the eleventh arrondissement, near Bastille and the Place Gambetta, northeast of the capital, where the procession had dispersed to 17h. Shouting slogans like, "Clement, Clement, antifa" or "no fascists in our neighborhoods, no neighborhood for fascists", the protesters had to pay tribute to their friend, who was killed at age 18, while "continuing his fight". "This is political assassination" and "the rise of the extreme right is a current reality, it is not imagined," said Olivier to press, a member of the Paris-Fascist Action group which belonged the young victim. "We lost a brother, a friend, a comrade," "a young man who had the future in front of him and was aware of the need to organize against the fascist threat," he added in a minute of silence . Members of this group "Antifa", most dressed in a black t-shirt on which was written "Clement, forever, one of us" and some of them had tears in their eyes, opened the procession, followed by a few thousand demonstrators with no visible signs of political affiliation, it was forbidden. "It could have been my little son," noted Michele, a protester of 75 years, who came to denounce "the current political climate (which) is really bad" and the extreme right reaction that attended the demonstrations against "marriage for all" ("Gay Marriage"). A Student at the University of Political Sciences, where went Clement, Sarah denounced it as "a deteriorating climate", that is under the responsibility of "policies that link foreign discrimination" and who "did not condemn" homophobia in recent weeks. "We will not cry over that (the suspects) who were arrested," but beyond the police investigation and th
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