FRANCE-ISRAEL/BEACH-SCUFFLES Police scuffle with protesters at pro-Palestinian beach demo in Paris

Record ID: 144171

  • Title: FRANCE-ISRAEL/BEACH-SCUFFLES Police scuffle with protesters at pro-Palestinian beach demo in Paris
  • Date: 13th August 2015
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (AUGUST 13, 2015) (REUTERS) POLICEMEN WALKING TOWARDS DEMONSTRATION / DEMONSTRATORS CLAPPING AND CHANTING VARIOUS OF PRO-PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATORS AT PROTEST, CHANTING AND HOLDING POSTERS DEMONSTRATORS STANDING BEHIND BANNER READING (French): 'APARTHEID ON SEINE' VARIOUS OF POLICE SCUFFLING WITH DEMONSTRATORS DEMONSTRATOR LYING ON THE GROUND, HOLDING HER FACE, BEING HELPED UP BY ANOTHER DEMONSTRATOR AND A POLICEMAN POLICE SCUFFLING WITH DEMONSTRATORS SITTING ON THE ROAD DEMONSTRATOR WAVING PALESTINIAN FLAG AND CHANTING VARIOUS OF DEMONSTRATORS SITTING ON THE ROAD, CLAPPING AND CHANTING VARIOUS OF DEMONSTRATORS HOLDING BANNER AND CHANTING: 'Free Palestine' VARIOUS OF POLICEMEN STANDING BY DEMONSTRATION VARIOUS OF DEMONSTRATION
  • Embargoed: 28th August 2015 13:00
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  • Location: France
  • Country: France
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVABGHHGB088E6WEFN5J12HR63P5
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: About a hundred pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered on Thursday (August 13) on the street above Paris' urban beach to protest a day-long festival dedicated Tel Aviv, with minor scuffles breaking out with the police.
    The event called 'Tel Aviv on Seine' celebrating the Israeli seaside resort has been condemned by left-wing and pro-Palestinian critics who say it implicitly condones Israeli government policy.
    Demonstrators clapped and chanted, standing behind a large cloth banner which read 'Apartheid on Seine'.
    Police scuffled with demonstrators as they tried to move them on when they sat down on the road, blocking traffic.
    Earlier in the day, protesters staged a parallel event which they dubbed 'Gaza on Seine' along the banks of the river, flying a Palestinian flag and wearing t-shirts reading 'Free Palestine' and 'Boycott Israel'.
    Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo had resisted calls to cancel the day's activities -- which include themed DJ sets and food stalls -- saying that it is about celebrating dialogue between cultures.
    Foreign cities have often been honoured in the past but this time some 300 police were on duty on the short stretch of riverbank along the Seine.
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