Since the departure of the Tour de France, on July 5, activists present peacefully on the course to denounce the presence of the team Israel Premier Tech In the race and to express support for the Palestinian people have been victims of unique and particularly serious police violence. In Lille, on July 5, citizens and citizens, members of the France Palestine Solidarité association, who demonstrated peacefully were nash, controlled and searched. Flags stored in bags were seized by arms police … in Caen, on July 9, other members of AFPS were gassed and thrown to the ground. A banner was lacerated with knives and destroyed, Palestinian flags were stolen as well as keffiehs while other personal objects have disappeared. Police who engaged in this violence said they had received the instructions that no flag or brand of support for Palestine is visible on the route of the Tour de France. In Flers, on July 10, a dozen activists were arrested and there too Palestinian flags were confiscated on the pretext that ” Wearing religious signs is prohibited during sports competitions ».
Thus, the complicity of the government with the crimes of Israel broke out in broad daylight. This government which uses the police to silence any support for the Palestinian cause while ensuring the tranquility of the propagandists of Israel. It was indeed revealed that mobile police escorts and eight agents of the police surround the perimeter around the Israeli team, weapons in the fist every day.
This connivance in the repression allowed Sylvan Adams, the boss of this team who openly supports the expulsion of the Palestinians from their land to congratulate themselves not to have seen any Palestinian flag on the Tour de France.
While massacres and horrors continue in Gaza and throughout Palestine daily, these police violence against those who peacefully denounce the current genocide are unjustifiable and unacceptable. It is revolting to note that the government of France sells with impunity of war material to a genocidal regime and at the same time suppress people who denounce their crimes.
AFPS denounces with the greatest firmness the attitude of the French government and the police under its orders. She provides activists who are also unjustly assaulted by her warmest support.
AFPS also wishes to assert its determination to continue the denunciation of the complicity of genocide of the French government and the organizers of the Tour de France by laundering the crimes of Israel through the presence of the team Israel Premier Tech in the race.
We will not be silent!
The AFPS National Office, July 11, 2025
Photo: screenshot of police attack against Caen activists on July 10, 2025
