FRANCE: FIFTEEN HUNDRED PEOPLE MARCH THROUGH PARIS IN PROTEST AGAINST SOUTH AFRICAN RUGBY UNION TOUR OF FRANCE.

Record ID: 647423

  • Title: FRANCE: FIFTEEN HUNDRED PEOPLE MARCH THROUGH PARIS IN PROTEST AGAINST SOUTH AFRICAN RUGBY UNION TOUR OF FRANCE.
  • Date: 30th November 1974
  • Summary: 1. SV DEMONSTRATORS CARRYING BANNER 0.06 2. CU ANTI-APARTHEID POSTERS (2 SHOTS) 0.19 3. SCU DEMONSTRATORS WITH BANNERS CHANTING AS THEY MARCH (2 SHOTS) 0.48 4. BV POLICE 0.51 5. T.V. DEMONSTRATORS PASS INTERSECTION 1.01 Initials CL/1810 CL/1823 SPORT - RUGBY UNION Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 15th December 1974 12:00
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVA4WIKT8TY0DOJ55XSB3QIVMY45
  • Story Text: SOME 1,500 PEOPLE TOOK PART IN A NIGHT MARCH THROUGH PARIS ON FRIDAY (29 NOVEMBER) TO PROTEST AGAINST THE CURRENT SOUTH AFRICAN RUGBY UNION TOUR OF FRANCE. THE PROTEST CAME ON THE EVE OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL BETWEEN FRANCE AND SOUTH AFRICA.

    THE DEMONSTRATORS MARCHED FROM THE FRENCH RUGBY UNION FEDERATION HEADQUARTERS TO THE SPORTS MINISTRY AND BROKE UP AFTER AN HOUR WITHOUT EVER BECOMING MORE THAN NOISY.

    A FOUR-MAN DELEGATION WAS RECEIVED AT THE FEDERATION HEADQUARTERS AND BY A REPRESENTATIVE OF SPORTS MINISTER PIERRE MAZEAUD.

    A SPOKESMAN FOR THE FRANCE ANTI-RACIAL MOVEMENT (MRAP) SAID AFTERWARDS; "AT THE FEDERATION THEY TOLD US IT WAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM, THEY JUST FOLLOWED GOVERNMENT DIRECTIVES. AT THE MINISTRY THEY SAID IT WAS THE FEDERATION WHO DECIDED."
    ABOUT 30 POLICEMEN GUARDED THE MINISTRY FROM THE CROWD WHICH CHANTED "RUGBY YES, RACISM NO" AND "SPRINGBOKS RACISTS; GISCARD, MAZEAUD ACCOMPLICES."
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