2023-11-22 06:45:06
The blue door stands out on the flight of stairs which connects Old Lyon to the first heights of Fourvière. It is armored, often tagged, like the facade – the neighbors complain, it costs the co-ownership dearly. The overhanging window was punctured by a projectile jet. It bears a sign, an angry heraldic lion, a sword between its paws, and these few words: “La Traboule – House of Identity”. It opens onto an association bar, with a boxing gym in the basement, also “identity”, L’Agogé. At the end of the week, the local invites “traditional Friday evening evening”. “Among patriots”, specifies on Facebook the group Les Remparts Lyon, which took over the case after the dissolution, in 2021, of the far-right movement Génération identitaire. You must be up to date with your contributions to respond to the invitation, and The world had to be content with the impressions of a local resident: “Young people having bar conversations, making jokes about Jews, Arabs and leftists. »
The man talks easily about these troublesome neighbors, but is briefly interrupted when a stranger rushes down the stairs near the establishment. “You never know, with them…” “Them” are these sympathizers of the ultra-right who seem to have made Old Lyon into a sort of zone to defend. From 400 to 500 people in the Lyon metropolitan area, according to the most reliable estimates. “Much more than in Paris in proportion”, calculates Alain Chevarin, author of Lyon and its extreme right (The Lantern, 2020). If the Lyonnais have not elected any representative of the extreme right, their city, recalls Mr. Chevarin, “presents the unique characteristic in France of having welcomed all the tendencies of the extreme right”.
On Saturday November 11, four students filed a complaint, saying they were victims of an attack during the night near La Traboule. A young woman was prescribed three days of temporary work interruption. Not far from there, in another street in Old Lyon, a conference organized by the Collectif Palestine 69 in the premises of the Maison des passages was violently disrupted the same day, late in the afternoon. Around fifty people tried to force a door with crowbars and mortars, before parading to shouts of “The street, France belongs to us”. The small group “Guignol Squad” claimed responsibility for the attack. Three conference attendees were hospitalized and a 26-year-old man was taken into police custody.
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