About a hundred people gather at the Bordeaux Place de la Republique to voice their support for the Palestinian cause. "We had to be there to express our solidarity with the Palestinian people," one attendee tells AFP. "We want to show our solidarity with these people who, for 75 years, have been subjected to immigration and ethnic cleansing," one of the event's organizers says. "Our rally was declared on Tuesday," he explains as France on Thursday said it was banning all pro-Palestinian demonstrations, on the grounds such protests threaten public order. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES