2024-03-09 21:21:49
“Without disturbing public order”. Born after the dissolution of Bastion Social in 2019, Popular Lyon, an ultra-right movement, held in reduced form its forum on “integral ecology” planned for this Saturday in Lyon and banned by the authorities, in a nearby village, Thurins, indicated the regional prefecture.
It brought together “a few participants in a private room” and did not cause “any disturbance to public order”, the prefecture told AFP.
According to a prefectural decree published Friday, the popular Lyon rally had been “banned in Lyon and in the Rhône department”, due in particular to “a wild poster campaign (….) with symbols related to Nazism”, the presence of guests “identified as belonging to the Lyon ultra-right” and the risk of clashes with far-left movements.
A group soon to disband?
The poster for the event presented a beam (a reference to Italian fascism also taken up by the Vichy regime) as well as a Celtic cross, symbol of the GUD (Groupe Union Défense), a radical far-right student union.
Founded after the dissolution in 2019 of the Bastion social group, Lyon Populaire is part of the revolutionary nationalist movement, a far-right trend centered on belonging to European civilization. Until then more discreet than the Remparts, the other Lyon ultra-right group heir to Génération identitaire (dissolved in 2021), Lyon populaire regularly organizes conferences in Lyon in the premises of the François Duprat circle (1940-1978), an ideologue National Front denier.
Elected officials, including the environmentalist mayor Grégory Doucet, have been calling for several months for the dissolution of the two groups and the closure of their premises. The ultra-right brings together nearly 3,300 people in France, including 1,300 on S files, according to a recent parliamentary report. Lyon, one of its historic strongholds, is regularly the scene of banned demonstrations or violence.
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