They abandoned weapons and balaclavas for fitted shirts and patent moccasins.
Hair shaved cleanly or slicked back, five young far-right demonstrators sport a neat and preppy look, as if to soften the charges against them, "carrying a weapon by destination" and "participation in an armed group with a view to preparing an act against people or damage to property”, a good chic coat of the right kind.
On Saturday September 23, 2023, the gendarmes arrested them in a car which was also transporting weapons.
But despite appearances, they assure the Saint-Nazaire criminal court, which is judging them this Tuesday afternoon, that they wanted to join "peacefully" with the sixty ultra-right activists who came to disrupt a conference on the reception of exiles in Saint-Brevin-les-Pins (Loire-Atlantique).
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