Le Figaro Lyon
The "return match" after the scuffles of ten days ago.
Thirty ultra-right activists dressed in black took a photo of themselves displaying a Celtic cross flag in front of the Jean Moulin Lyon-3 University on Thursday.
On the Telegram channel Ouest Casual, which broadcasts this kind of punch action, a group called “Mob guignol squad” claims the cliché
“following
announcements of blockages of Lyon universities
by antifas”
.
On Wednesday, the tobacco factory campus where the photo was taken was not blocked.
The ultra-right activists were followed by the police anyway to prevent the violence.
"State services are in regular contact with the presidency of the university to prevent these risks of violence"
, indicates the prefecture to
Figaro
.
The movements of the far-right group were particularly followed to lead it to disperse”.
La Cocarde and Les Remparts in the viewfinder
Because once the faculty left, several videos posted on Twitter then showed the presence of young men in black, some armed with iron bars, in front of the Juliette Récamier high school, in the 2nd arrondissement, which had been blocked in early March.
One of them chants "Before, before, Lion le Melhor" - a cry of medieval origin for gathering ultra-right groups -, while his acolytes show their muscles in the face of high school students.
The students were sheltered inside the establishment, confirmed the rectorate to
Figaro
, without being able to give the affiliation of the activists present.
The prefecture has no knowledge of physical violence.
"We have seen this type of illegal action on several occasions, with armed people who organize themselves on their networks and beat the recall"
, deplores Nicolas Simiot, general secretary of the Unsa union in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
He asks the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, to dissolve two ultra-right groups following these events.
And targets the student union La Cocarde, also present in other cities, and the group Les Remparts, born on the ashes of Génération identitaire after its dissolution in 2021. The group Les Remparts assured Le Progrès not to have been present
on
the places, Thursday.
For its part, the prefecture confirms the affiliation of the individuals targeted to the movement of the ultra-right, without however knowing their small group of membership.
The mayor of the 8th arrondissement, Olivier Berzane (EELV), more broadly called for the dissolution of "
these ultra-right, ultra-violent small groups".