Ultra-right: the Lille association La Citadelle dissolved by the Council of Ministers

2024-02-07T12:32:52.731Z

Highlights: The Lille ultra-right association La Citadelle was banned from organizing an evening entitled “Let them return to Africa” in February 2023. The bar opened in 2016 presenting itself as a ‘patriot bar’ and a “house of identity’ The association justifies by “its publications, the words of its members and its slogans, the implementation of a xenophobic ideology and provoking hatred and discrimination,” according to the dissolution decree. The Minister of Interior Gérald Darmanin announced the dissolution of the association on his account.

Gérald Darmanin announced this Wednesday the dissolution of the ultra-right association which had been prohibited from organizing an evening entitled “Let them return to Africa” in February 2023.