Today's Human Rights League is no more than a pale reflection of the powerful organization it was in the interwar period.
And the mindset of its leaders has changed.
The association accused the Ministry of the Interior of having deliberately prevented relief from accessing the injured during the demonstration which degenerated into a riot in Sainte-Soline on March 25, an allegation that has nothing to support.
Since then, Gérald Darmanin and Élisabeth Borne have in turn estimated, in clear or implicit terms, that the League for the Rights of Man had become an association of the extreme left.
And it is possible to think, in fact, that the League has, for a long time, deviated from the noble principles invoked when it was created in 1898 during the Dreyfus Affair: the defense of law and justice.
Moreover, not that the leaders of the League of Human Rights between the wars were themselves...
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