2023-12-12 18:29:08
The Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, speaks to the press during a trip to a police station in Maisons-Alfort (Val-de-Marne), December 12, 2023. STEPHANIE LECOCQ / REUTERS
The movement of traditionalist Catholics Academia Christiana filed a complaint for defamation, Tuesday, December 12, against Gérald Darmanin, announced their lawyer on the social network Agence France-Presse was able to consult the comments made by the Minister of the Interior on Monday on the CNews channel.
He asserted that, ” this summer, [Academia Christiana a] notably advocates anti-Semitism”, and he imputed to them “great support for the collaboration of Marshal Pétain”.
According to Me Frédéric Pichon, who defends Academia Christiana, “never such remarks have been made” during the association’s summer universities, and Mr. Darmanin confused the summer universities of Academia Christiana and those of the fundamentalist Catholic movement Civitas.
The minister’s words “are all the more serious as they claim to support a request for dissolution of the association”, we can read in the complaint. A “a request which is exceptional and which is therefore based, in the communication from the Minister of the Interior, on fallacious and invented facts, since it seems that Mr. Darmanin has confused the Academia Christiana association with the Civitas association, which shows the lack of seriousness of the approach.”
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An “integral” training institute
On Sunday, the Minister of the Interior announced that he would present to the Council of Ministers, “in the coming weeks”, the decree of dissolution of Academia Christiana. Founded in 2013 by young people close to the identity movement, Academia Christiana presents itself as a training institute “integral”at a time “spiritual, moral, intellectual and sporting”.
This organization is chaired by Victor Aubert, professor of French and philosophy at the Institut Croix-des-Vents in Sées (Orne), a private educational establishment outside of a contract run by the Priestly Fraternity of Saint-Pierre, a traditionalist institute recognized by Rome.
After the announcement of its upcoming dissolution, Academia Christiana received a lot of support from the far right on social networks, particularly from the movement close to Eric Zemmour.
The CJR is the only jurisdiction empowered to prosecute and judge members of the government for crimes and offenses committed in the exercise of their functions. Complaints addressed to it are filtered by a complaints commission, which can classify them or transmit them to an investigating commission. At the end of the investigation, this commission declares a dismissal of the case or a referral to the judgment panel of the CJR.
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