Scenes of violence this Saturday in Paris?
While the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin launched last weekend the procedure for the dissolution of the ultra-right group Generation Identity, the movement is organizing a demonstration at Place Denfert-Rochereau in Paris, in order to castigate this decision.
The organizers, who saw their demonstration authorized by the Paris police headquarters, said they were considering a thousand participants, in a static position.
Several anti-fascist organizations have planned to face the far-right activists, but their gathering was banned, having been, according to the prefecture, declared too late, RTL reveals this Saturday, which specifies that a strong mobilization of forces order and preventive checks are planned.
Possible clashes are still to be feared in the capital from midday.
"The dissolution procedure is underway"
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on February 14 that he had initiated the procedure for the dissolution of the far-right group Generation Identity, long demanded by several associations and political parties.
“Identity generation: the dissolution procedure is underway.
This organization now has 10 days to respond to the contradictory, ”the minister wrote on Twitter.
The hypothesis of a dissolution had been raised by the minister on January 26 after an anti-migrant operation in the Pyrenees of the small group.
SOS Racisme lodged a complaint and a preliminary investigation for "public provocation to racial hatred" was opened in the wake, justified by "remarks made on this banner very clearly anti-immigration and especially the reason why this banner was deployed “, Explained the prosecutor of Saint-Gaudens (Haute-Garonne), Christophe Amunzateguy.
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About thirty militants were deployed between Luchon (Haute-Garonne) and the Spanish border.
With cars screened "Defend Europe", they had settled at the Col du Portillon, some had gone on hikes using a drone to monitor the border.
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Gérald Darmanin, saying he was "scandalized" by this operation, then asked the services of his ministry to "bring together" the elements allowing "to propose the dissolution" of the group.
The case was entrusted to the Central Territorial Intelligence Service (SCRT) and to the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI).