2023-11-12 17:13:18
Elected officials from several parties asked the government on Sunday to dissolve a small far-right group in Lyon, the day after the coup by ultra-right activists against a venue hosting a conference on Palestine.
“I contacted the Minister of the Interior and wrote to his colleagues to obtain the dissolution of the Les Remparts group” and the closure “from their premises in Traboule”explained to Agence France-Presse (AFP) the Renaissance deputy of the Rhône Thomas Rudigoz, relaunching an approach “started a long time ago”. “These are militias who moved into the heart of Lyon, with shouts, anti-Semitic slogans, hoods, iron bars”added the deputy, condemning “abuses and speeches of rare violence”.
“We have been alerting Gérald Darmanin for months to take action in Lyon against the extreme right, and the acts of violence are repeated endlessly”added Rhône ecologist Marie-Charlotte Garin on X (ex-Twitter).
The Lyon public prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation to “aggravated violence, damage in meetings, participation in a group with a view to preparing violence or damage”, AFP learned from the prosecution. One of the attackers was arrested on Sunday evening and is still in police custody, according to the prosecution.
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Lyon, stronghold of the French ultra-right
The capital of Gaul is one of the strongholds of the ultra-right in France: between 300 and 400 people are members of the movement there, according to local authorities. Les Remparts, a small ultra-right group from Lyon built on the ashes of Génération Identitaire, a collective dissolved in March 2021, prides itself on its Facebook page on being a “civilizational rampart” and regularly organizes “rooted aperitifs” at Traboule, a mecca for the ultra-right in Lyon.
The attack on Saturday evening, which left three people lightly injured, was claimed on the Telegram loop of ultra-right identity and neo-Nazi Ouest Casual by the « Guignol Squad »informal group customary for violent actions, created at the beginning of the “Yellow vests” in January 2019. According to commentators, it is a fake nose used to avoid exposing more formal groups.
“This new attack reminds us of the urgency of dissolving these small groups and closing fascist premises”argued La France insoumise (LFI) in a press release published on « ratooned ».
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