Paris police prefect Laurent Nunez estimated at “3,000-4,000” the number of people who took part in a rally in support of the Palestinian people on Saturday, which he banned, AFP reported.

Speaking on BFMTV, Núñez said police had issued “several hundred fines” by 6:30 p.m. The fine for participating in a prohibited demonstration is 135 euros.

As of 7:30 p.m., “15 people were arrested and 1,077 fines were issued,” the police prefecture reported.

“This demonstration, which was supposed to take place in the form of a walk from Place Châtelet to Place République, under the conditions in which it was announced, did not actually take place,” the prefect said.

He explained that law enforcement officers “surrounded” the demonstrators on Chatelet Square to prevent them from “going out into the streets.”

Núñez cited “several attempts at wild processions along the stated route, but very quickly dispersed them with proportionate use of force.”

He said that the police had found that “problematic slogans similar to the apologia of terrorism were being spoken”, adding that he would “pay attention to justice”.

On October 18, the Council of State reminded the government that pro-Palestinian demonstrations cannot be systematically banned and that assessing the presence of a local risk of public disorder is the exclusive competence of the prefects.

The police prefect assured that requests for demonstrations “are evaluated on a case-by-case basis.”

Earlier in the morning, the administrative court confirmed the prefect’s ban on the demonstration. In a press release, the Paris Administrative Court claimed that it did not suspend the prefect’s order, “particularly given the context of rising tensions related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the conditions in which the demonstration took place.”