Seven Spanish Christians were arrested in Paris on Monday after driving through the city in a bus protesting the blasphemous depiction of the Last Supper at the Olympics opening ceremony.
The bus, which was organised by the campaign group CitizenGo, was decorated with the Olympic rings and a picture of the controversial Last Supper parody, along with the words “Stop attacks on Christians.”
However, police stopped the bus on Avenue de Wagram and accused the organisers of failing to advise them they were holding a protest. They were taken to the 17th arrondissement police station before being transferred to another police station to be taken into custody. They were later released.
The Paris public prosecutor’s office said it had:
lifted the police custody and closed the case due to an irregularity, as the time limit for presentation to a judicial police officer was too late and the reason for the arrests was not sufficiently precise.
In a post on social media, the group quoted a lawyer who said: “It appears impossible to constitute the crime of failing to communicate a protest because there is no protest in the presence of one unique vehicle. The prosecutor pushed the law to its limits to stop the bus and limit their free speech. Moreover, the procedure was irregular.”
The bus was then escorted out of Paris.
Having largely prevented the protest from being seen, Paris police obscured their actions with jargon. This echoes the earlier gaslighting by the French liberal intelligentsia, presenting the offending opening ceremony skit as ‘actually’ the depiction of a Greco-Roman bacchanal feast.
