He was required to check in at a police station at 3 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, and he was forbidden from being in places where the demonstration was taking place or in locations banned from the demonstration. On the evening of Friday, October 30, two police officers knocked on the door of a Marseille teacher and had him sign the order.
They specify that, while these measures have already been used in recent years, this is the first time they have been used so massively, with the aim of discouraging these protesters.
These measures, based on counter-terrorism provisions, target activists who sometimes have no criminal record and, above all, no connection to terrorism.
The lawyers defending these people placed under house arrest believe that the Interior Ministry is equating these activists with terrorists.
This document notably includes all the elements that intelligence services have gathered against him.
He was mainly arrested and placed in police custody the previous weekend for blocking a traffic point.
Elements which, according to them, cannot really be linked to terrorist acts.