‘An orchestra being gassed should be an alarm signal’: the musical activists targeted in Paris

New World Orchestra’s musicians are shocked at French police targeting peaceful gathering with teargas Europe live – latest updates As riot police encircled Place de la République last week, lobbing teargas canisters to disperse demonstrators, the conductor Étienne Jarrier and his orchestra played on.

They kept playing even after everyone else had disappeared and teargas was being fired into the central Paris square. It was only when Jarrier noticed his musicians were being directly…