Court upholds Paris police ban of anti-Islamist rally
A French court has upheld the Paris police chief's order to ban a planned demonstration against radical Islamists in the wake of France's worst terrorism in decades.
The Paris administrative tribunal ruled in an accelerated judgment Saturday that police were authorized to ban Sunday's "Islamists out of France" rally. Two groups that promote secular and republican values were key organizers of the planned demonstration.
A police official confirmed the ruling after Paris police chief Bernard Boucault ordered the ban because the rally might incite civil unrest.
