2023-05-21 18:38:42
The police headquarters has banned a meeting which was to take place this Sunday afternoon in Paris in tribute to the far-right identity theorist Dominique Venner. The latter committed suicide ten years ago to the day in the cathedral of Notre-Dame. “There are serious risks that, on the occasion of this tribute, remarks inciting hatred and discrimination (…) will be made”, justified the prefect of police of Paris Laurent Nuñez in his decree, consulted by the AFP.
The police headquarters also recalls the conviction of Dominique Venner to 18 months in prison for his membership in the Secret Army Organization (OAS), a clandestine terrorist group opposed to the independence of Algeria.
The meeting, organized by the Iliade Institute on the theme “Dominique Venner, the Flame is maintained”, was to be held on Sunday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Wagram Pavilion, in the west of Paris. “At 2:30 p.m., the administrative court had not yet ruled on the summary freedom filed by the Iliade Institute,” said in a press release this circle of reflection of the identity movement.
The crowd quickly dispersed
“It is unprecedented, in a democracy, that a symposium organized by a cultural association is prohibited from holding a public meeting organized in a private place”, underlines the organization, announcing a double appeal on the merits before the administrative court and the Council of ‘State. Around 3 p.m., about fifteen police officers stood in front of the closed room, noted an AFP journalist. A small crowd that came to attend the symposium quickly dispersed. “Freedom of expression has existed for a long time”, “it is under surveillance”, we heard in its ranks.
Former paratrooper, activist in the 1950s in the neofascist movement Jeune Nation then member of the OAS, Dominique Venner, firearms specialist, killed himself with a pistol on May 21, 2013 at the age of 78 in front of the altar of the Notre-Dame cathedral. President of the National Front at the time, Marine Le Pen had expressed her “respect” towards Mr. Venner by considering that his “eminently political” gesture was an attempt to “wake up the people of France”.
At the beginning of May, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, had asked the prefects to prohibit in the future all demonstrations “of the ultra-right or the extreme right”, after a controversy sparked by a parade in Paris on May 6. The police headquarters banned six gatherings last weekend. A symposium and a demonstration organized by the Action française were finally able to take place, after a green light from the administrative justice.
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