Identity generation manifested in Paris against its possible dissolution

Several hundred people gathered early Saturday afternoon in Paris to protest against the possible dissolution of the radical far-right movement Generation Identity, a measure long demanded by several associations but denounced by the RN.

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said Patrick Hays, vice-president of the Jean-Marie Le Pen Institution being created, on Place Denfert-Rochereau, in the 14th arrondissement, cordoned off by the police and a very visible order service.

The entourage of the founder of the FN (ex-RN) Jean-Marie Le Pen will not be

", said his entourage, specifying that he was represented by Patrick Hays.

Around him, demonstrators chanted "We are home!", Others brandished signs "Dissolve because of identity", while some sported caps with the slogan "Make America Great Again", similar to those worn during the Donald Trump's campaign in the United States.

A forbidden gathering

At the platform, the speeches “thanked” the polemicist Eric “Zemmour for defending our ideas”, as well as the former FN deputy, Marion Maréchal, and the former FN members Florian Philippot and Jean Messiha for showing their support.

At the same time, less than a kilometer away, in the Montparnasse district, a hundred demonstrators were gathered at the call of the Union syndicale Solidaires Paris in particular, with the slogan "social anti-fascist response. ".

This gathering had been banned by the police headquarters on the grounds that the gathering was declared "out of time".

At around 2:30 p.m., the police asked the demonstrators to leave the square.

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"It's scandalous to have banned a poor peaceful gathering like ours, there are more police forces than demonstrators while there the neo-Nazis are quietly demonstrating"

, declared Karine, 36, who did not did not want to give his last name.

Created in 2012, Génération Identitaire, whose historic headquarters are in Lyon, claims 2,800 members but the number of its activists and supporters is rather estimated by specialists at 800 at most.

Its dissolution was mentioned for the first time on January 26 by the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin who said he was “scandalized” by an anti-migrant operation of the far-right group in the Pyrenees.

On February 13, Mr. Darmanin announced that he had initiated the procedure for the dissolution of the group, giving the organization 10 days to present its arguments, a decision denounced by the National Rally which sees it as