12 former members of the dissolved ultra-right group Génération Identitaire were arrested in France on Tuesday. Four other people are still wanted by gendarmes from the Paris research section.
Several of its former executives are suspected of “having regrouped within a new association called Argos’ Argos claims to defend “our multi-millennial civilization, mutilated by decades of progressive delusions, forced amnesia and submission to other civilizations” “We have an acceleration, a multiplication of procedures against the identity movement which is akin to political persecution,” says lawyer Pierre-Vincent Lambert.