Press statement by LCR spokesperson Olivier Besancenot
The decisions announced by M.de Villepin, yesterday evening on TF1 [main television channel], are intolerable. Instead of responding to the social emergency, he has resuscitated a law dating from the colonial epoch, from the Algerian War, which gives prefects the power to decree a curfew on all or part of the territory of a borough and to suspend a certain number of civil liberties. Already, the mayor of Raincy - the town that spends 2.6% of its budget on house building - in the vanguard of the repression, has jumped the gun by decreeing such a measure in his town. In this situation the LCR calls on people to defy the curfew by demonstrating in the towns or the neighbourhoods, if necessary at night, where a curfew is decreed by the prefect. The LCR calls on all left wing and democratic organisations to organise these demonstrations together.
8 November, 2005