After the violence in Aurillac, incomprehension and political recovery of the right and the extreme right

The first night of the Aurillac International Street Theater Festival was the scene of violence between CRS and around 300 people, according to local authorities. The tension would be mounted after the violent arrest of a young man who tagged the storefront of a bank, according to several witnesses on the spot.

Dozens of people would then have gathered around the police to challenge the firmness of the arrest. Joined by other individuals, the situation would then have degenerated. A group then degraded bus shelter, shops and windows, on fires and launched projectiles on the CRS.

An in progress in progress

Aurillac’s prosecutor, Sandrine Delorme, announced that no arrest or police custody had taken place. But “An investigation is underway to be able to identify the thugs. The prosecution will defeat any person identified and against whom there will be enough elements ”she added.

“The dynamic intervention of the police made it possible to limit the consequences of this violence on goods and people, committed by particularly violent and determined individuals”wrote the Cantal Prefecture in a press release. The prefect of Cantal, Philippe Loos, also said that eight police officers had been injured in the clashes.

“We cannot leave these black blocks to anarchist speeches Break our city and our festival”said the mayor of Aurillac Pierre Mathonier (PS) to the France-Presse agency. “It is not normal to use this festival as a support for inadmissible radical political demands “, He said before the press, displaying his will that “This festival continues”.

“These violence has nothing to do with our project, whether artistic, cultural or social” And the festival is the ” victim “assured Frédéric Rémy, director of the festival.

An evening of violence for a tag?

Symbol of capitalism and the explosion of inequality, banks, like insurance companies or temporary agencies, are regularly targeted during political events and demonstrations.

If it is proven that the person who tagged the bank and was violently challenged, the question of the strategy of maintaining “ l’Erhord »et of the answer “Proportionate” will arise. If it is illegal to degrade the storefront of a trade, the brutal arrests in this kind of gatherings often trigger clashes between force of “Order” and civilians.

Since this evening of tensions, the right and the extreme right take advantage of it to incriminate the “Leftists”. “We are too tender in the response”considers for example Antoine Diers, former advisor to Eric Zemmour, in the big gules of RMC. He also advocates giving more means to CRS to intervene more “ effectively “.

As a reminder, France is regularly pinned for its doctrine of the maintenance of order. In 2023, seven special rapporteurs of the United Nations pointed for example a “Lack of restraint in the use of force”, “Worrying for the rule of law” and called France to a “Full exam” of his “Strategies and practices in order to maintain order”.

“Unhappy with the arrest of a tagger by the bac, the Gauchos transformed yesterday the Festival de rue d’Aurillac into a real battlefield”writes Matthieu Valet on X (ex-Twitter). “Antifas that hate police and France have faced our police forces”continues the deputy and spokesperson for the national rally, as if anti-fascism was an insult.

Still others attack directly at the festival, in which we could see a Palestinian flag, and “Paid with our taxes”.