The case dates back more than three years.
In October 2017, nine men and a woman were arrested in Seine-Saint-Denis and in the Bouches-du-Rhône after an investigation lasting several months revealing a suspicion of taking action targeting politicians.
Members of a small group politically and nostalgically called "OAS", they wanted to attack Christophe Castaner, then government spokesman, Jean-Luc Mélenchon or Muslims.
The matter had been under investigation since;
the national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office (PNAT) finally asked Thursday for a criminal trial for nine members of this tiny ultra-right group.
In its final indictment made Thursday, the PNAT asked that the suspects be tried for "terrorist criminal association", six before the criminal court and the other three, minors at the time of the facts, before the children's court, according to a judicial source. .
The investigating judges have one month to decide.
"I was only waiting for that", rejoiced to AFP Me Eric Bourlion, Logan Nisin's lawyer.
The young man, self-proclaimed leader of the group, is still in pre-trial detention.
"In the end, he is accused of an offense, it is a legal soufflé served too cold," he lambasted.
Purchase of arms and racketeering from business leaders
It was the arrest, on June 28, 2017, of Logan Alexandre Nisin, which led to the group's dismantling a few months later.
Originally from Vitrolles (Bouches-du-Rhône) and a time militant in 2016 of the royalist organization Action française Provence, he admitted to investigators having founded a small group under the name of OAS, the same acronym as the armed organization. secret, responsible for a bloody campaign against the independence of Algeria in the 1960s.
The group aimed to "start a re-migration based on terror".
In addition to their political targets, the members of this OAS had mentioned attacks against “kebabs” in Marseille or the “site of the great mosque of Vitrolles”.
The organization planned to buy weapons, using the money they allegedly obtained by racketeering business leaders.
Some had already trained in shooting, with legally owned weapons.
In front of the investigators, Logan Alexandre Nisin had minimized the scope of these threats, affirming that the group had abandoned its projects for lack of having "the capacities" to implement them.
With the “OAS” and a Facebook page to the glory of the Norwegian far-right terrorist Anders Breivik (who killed 77 people in July 2011) of which he was the administrator, he wanted to create a “buzz” in nationalist circles. .
Logan Nisin had also participated in the 2017 presidential and legislative campaigns of the National Front in his region.
The party assured that it had never been a member, however, and condemned its activities.
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OAS, AFO, Barjols ... at least four other anti-terrorism investigations linked to ultra-right violent action projects have been underway since 2017.
Several cases linked to the ultra-right
A year after Logan Nisin's arrest, another small group suspected of wanting to strike Muslim targets had been dismantled.
In the fall of 2020, fifteen members or relatives of this group called Action des forces operational (AFO), tinged with extreme right-wing survivalism, were indicted in the investigation, which continues.
Since then, a small group, from a Facebook group nicknamed "Les Barjols" and accused of wanting to attempt the life of President Macron, has been arrested in 2018. Two other anti-terrorism investigations linked to the ultra-right, one on a group close to the neo-Nazi ideology suspected of targeting Jewish and Muslim places of worship, the other on a supremacist admirer of the perpetrator of the 2019 attack on mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Proof of probable links between nationalist movements: a month after the crackdown against the OAS, a mysterious "commando", who had claimed hammer attacks in Dijon and Chalon-sur-Saône, had threatened to attack him. a L 1 football match if the "colleagues" were not released.
