Neo-fascists march via Paris regardless of authorities dedication to ban ultra-right demonstrations – Cyber Tech

For 2 hours, a triangle of streets within the 6^th arrondissement of Paris got here below the management of neo-fascists. On Saturday, Could 11, a number of hundred individuals responded to the decision of the Comité du 9 Mai (“Could 9 Committee”), the tiny group whose nationalist chants, provocations and Nazi tattoos had shocked the general public on Could 6, 2023, and led to a dedication by Inside Minister Gérald Darmanin to oppose – by way of the prefects – each demonstration initiated by “any ultra-right or far-right activist, or any affiliation or collective, in Paris or wherever else within the nation.” However this was to no avail.

Just a few hours earlier than the rally, the Paris Administrative Courtroom suspended the ban issued earlier within the week by the Paris Police Prefect, ruling that it represented “a severe and clearly unlawful infringement of the liberty to display.” In consequence, identitarian, neo-fascist and royalist activists had been capable of march with whole impunity.

This occasion was all of the extra vital for the Could 9 Committee as this yr marked the 30^th anniversary of the demise of Sébastien Deyzieu. This younger activist of the Œuvre française, a Petainist (supporting collaborationist regime chief Philippe Pétain) and anti-Semitic group, fell from a roof on Could 7, 1994, after a chase with the police throughout an indication known as “towards American imperialism” and banned by the prefecture. The day after his demise, the “black rats” (image of the Groupe Union Défense, the GUD), the Entrance Nationwide de la Jeunesse and the Jeunesses Nationalistes Révolutionnaires fashioned the Comité du 9 Mai, marking the date of his demise, to name for the resignation of then inside minister Charles Pasqua and to commemorate the reminiscence of the younger man.

Nazi salutes and symbols

This yr, as soon as once more, greater than 600 activists had been free to sing their nationalist songs, show the normal symbols of the motion (black suns or Celtic crosses) tattooed on their arms or calves and march military-style. They had been led by their chief Gabriel Loustau – son of Axel Lousteau, a GUD determine and former treasurer of far-right politician Marine Le Pen’s micro-party, Jeanne.

The explanations given by Prefect Laurent Nuñez in help of the ban – “illicit concealment of the face” in 2023 or worry of “nationalist statements calling for hatred and discrimination” – didn’t frighten the nationalist ranks. Many had their faces coated by neckerchiefs. On the head of the procession, a member of the group’s “safety” gave a transparent Nazi salute to accompany yet one more rallying cry (“Europe, youth, revolution”).

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