2023-09-01 22:09:48
The event was announced via social networks. This Friday, the Paris police headquarters banned a rally, organized by the movement “Les Nationalistes”, scheduled for this Saturday, from 10 a.m., at the cemetery of Thiais (Val-de-Marne).
Yvan Benedetti, president of the movement and former elected RN, had launched an appeal on social networks to pay tribute to Pierre Sidos, who died in 2020.
Figure of the Pétainist and nationalist extreme right, admirer of Pétain and Franco, Pierre Sidos chaired from 1968 “L’Œuvre française”, an openly anti-Semitic movement whose slogan was “France for the French”. Its emblem was the Celtic cross. The organization was banned in 2013.
???? Saturday September 2, meet in Paris around the figure of chef Pierre Sidos for the three years of his disappearance.
Peter Sidos? Here ! pic.twitter.com/c2aRU1Ko4a
— YVAN BENEDETTI (@Yvan_Benedetti) August 27, 2023
The prefecture justifies its decision by “the absence of authorization from the City of Paris”, of which the cemetery is an outbuilding, as well as by the “serious risks that anti-Semitic and Holocaust denial remarks are made and that fascist symbols be deployed and carried”, via a press release.
The Prefect of Police prohibits a gathering of the “Les Nationalistes” movement announced by social networks for Saturday, September 2 at the cemetery of #Thais (94). The absence of authorization from the City of Paris and the risks of remarks or gestures contrary to the laws of… pic.twitter.com/2RALdtTHvw
— Prefecture of Police (@prefpolice) September 1, 2023
Spiritual son of collaborationist Pierre Sidos, Yvan Benedetti, 55, led Bruno Gollnisch’s ill-fated campaign to take over the presidency of the National Rally from Marine Le Pen in 2011. He chaired the Pétainist movement l’Œuvre française until his dissolved in 2014 after the death of anti-fascist activist Clément Méric in June 2013.
Spokesperson for the French Nationalist Party (PNF), he was heard in 2019 by the parliamentary commission of inquiry into far-right groups. He assures that the number of 6 million Jews who died during the Holocaust is “completely bogus”. Benedetti was convicted of Holocaust denial in June 2021 and of challenging crimes against humanity in September 2022.
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