A local activist, Hadama Traore, had called for a demonstration Thursday in Gonesse, the northeastern Paris suburb where Harpon lived, insisting that he was "not a religious extremist". Writing on Facebook, Traore claimed that Harpon suffered discrimination and mockery at work because he was hard of hearing. Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said the demonstration would be banned, calling it an "obscenity and insult to the memory of our police". On Tuesday, the minister appeared before a parliamentary committee, conceding there had been a "malfunction" in not reporting the signals. Macron's speech Tuesday at a ceremony for the slain police marked a toughening of rhetoric, with the president calling on France to be a "society in a state of vigilance".

Source: The Local October 09, 2019 13:52 UTC