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White supremacists: what is this fringe of the ultra-right who wants to “save France from decadence”?

2020-10-09T08:41:57.174Z


INVESTIGATION - On the occasion of the bill against separatism, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin designated the supremacists as a "threat" for France. But who today embodies this white “separatism”?


Since the start of the five-year term, five ultra-right terrorist attacks have been foiled by the DGSI and the gendarmerie, according to information from

Figaro

.

In 2017 and 2018, some members of networks such as the Barjols, Action des forces operational (AFO) or the OAS were arrested, while they were preparing several attacks.

Asked by CNews on October 4, Laurent Nuñez, national intelligence coordinator at the Élysée Palace, warned about “the supremacist threat” in France,

“these people who imagine that there is going to be a“ big night ”, that 'you have to arm yourself to defend yourself'

.

A threat mentioned in the bill on separatism, which mainly targets radical Islam.

Read also: Emmanuel Macron delegates the fight against separatism to Gérald Darmanin

Several thousand people followed by the intelligence services

Questioned by

Le Figaro

, several police sources familiar with the matter assure that around 1 to 2 thousand members of the ultra-right are today followed by intelligence teams, including several hundred supremacist activists.

In 2016, Patrick Calvar (former director of

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Source: lefigaro

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