Métropole De Lyon. Garbage Lights and Wild Procession: the Carnival Des Pentes Degenerates at the Croix-Rousse

On a Friday night particularly tense on the slopes of the Croix-Rousse (4th arrondissement). Despite its ban a few hours earlier by the prefecture, the Carnival of the Pentes did indeed take place. The event which declared itself as "antifascist, subversive and popular" degenerated, like the two previous editions. Its ban had been decided [...] The article Degradations and confrontations: despite the prefectural ban, the Carnival of the Pents co…

Banned by the prefecture because of a risk of disturbance to public order, the Carnaval des Pentes, an event organized by groups of extreme left and antifascists, went in a wild procession this Friday evening at the Croix-Rousse. Degradations took place as well as clashes with the police.