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Annecy attack: "No place" for the ultra-right, says the president of the agglomeration

2023-06-10T10:33:19.071Z

Highlights: About fifty ultra-right activists gathered Thursday in Annecy near the playground where the knife attack took place. Protesters responded to calls launched by far-right movements on social networks with the hashtag: "francocide" Annecy prosecutor's office has announced the opening of a preliminary investigation. The mayor of Annecy had also condemned "strongly" the demonstration of far- right activists, confirming that it had not been authorized. The ecologist regional councillor Fabienne Grebert was moved by this demonstration which "is chilling in the back"


About fifty ultra-right activists gathered Thursday in Annecy near the playground where the knife attack took place.


A few hours after the knife attack that injured six including four children, about thirty people gathered Thursday on the playground of Pâquier, in Annecy. Protesters who responded to calls launched by far-right movements on social networks with the hashtag: "francocide", a term coined by Eric Zemmour.

While calls are launched for white marches everywhere in France by this movement, Frédérique Lardet, president (Horizons) of the Greater Annecy agglomeration community denounces on France info this type of recovery. "These demonstrations have no place in us today in Annecy," she said before adding: "These political acts prior to obtaining answers have no place and will never have their place on our territory."

For now, the prosecutor of Annecy, Line Bonnet-Mathis, considered that the motivations of the assailant seemed devoid of "apparent terrorist motive", adding that she could not "exclude at this stage a senseless act".

However, Frédérique Lardet believes that this gathering of the ultra-right represents "a microcosm" that has defied the ban on demonstrations of the prefecture of Haute-Savoie.

Another undeclared protest in mid-May

The elected official who ensures that "Annecy residents are rather sensitive, appeased people", also recognizes that the public authorities will have to provide "answers, as elected officials, to put in place and to give to Annecy residents who are worried about their safety, but not to mention ultra-right, not to mention racism, without using abject terms," she adds.

Already in mid-May, an undeclared demonstration that brought together dozens of nationalist people in the city had created another controversy and reacted part of the political class. The police had intervened.

On Twitter, the ecologist regional councillor Fabienne Grebert was moved by this demonstration which "is chilling in the back". She had denounced a "perfume of 1934" maintained by "militias with warlike remarks". "What is the state doing to prevent this? Trivialize the far right! SHAME! " she teased.

The mayor of Annecy had also condemned "strongly the demonstration of far-right activists", confirming that it had not been authorized. "The messages that are conveyed are not acceptable in our democracy, neither in Annecy, nor elsewhere," insisted the elected official. The Annecy prosecutor's office has announced the opening of a preliminary investigation.

Source: leparis

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