LONDON: French Interior Minister Gerald Dormain has said he is seeking to disband an “ultra-right” group that has been blamed for attacks on anti-racism campaigners who attacked presidential candidate Eric Jemour. has gone. protested at a rally for
Zouwes, who supports Zamor’s anti-immigration and anti-Islamic ideology, is believed to have attacked members of the SOS racist.
Anti-racism campaigners said they hoped to protest peacefully, but five of their members were injured when people attacked them. Dozens, including members of the SOS casteism, were reportedly arrested after the incident.
Footage from eight days earlier that night showed a man wearing a “No to Racism” T-shirt violently punching a young woman in the head.
Other attackers kicked and threw chairs at the protesters. After the meeting, police said they had identified about 50 people linked to Zouwes, who posed for a picture and said: “On est chez nous (this is our home),” AFP reported.
Dorman said on Monday: “I’ve begun the process of disbanding this real group, which are the Zooeys, a group of people who come from GUD (a former far-right student union) or Action Française, Which is fine. -Known ultra-right movements.”
Jean-Yves Camus, a political analyst at the Jean-Jures Foundation think tank, said that the Zouaves “are one of the most violent dynasties of all far-right groups.”
He has been linked to a series of violent attacks, including an attack on football supporters waving the Algerian flag in Paris during the 2018 World Cup and during France’s yellow vest demonstrations.
The public prosecutor has opened an investigation into the violence at the Zamor meeting.
Dominique Sopo, president of SOS Racisme, said: “You must either be intoxicated by racism or be certain of your omnipotence to be able to act like this in front of cameras.
“It’s absolutely amazing, and it shows what this candidate is, and what attracts the public, and who the terrorists have gathered there.”
Zemour is a controversial figure and TV personality whose history of immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric has landed him in hot water with the French authorities.
In 2011, he was fined €10,000 ($11,281) for claiming on TV that “most drug dealers are black and Arab,” and in 2018 for comments about a Muslim “invasion” of France. A fine of €10,000 ($11,281) was imposed. Three thousand rupees were ordered to be paid.
France will vote for its next president in April.