Members of Génération Identitaire demonstrated in Paris on February 20, 2021. -

AFP

Several hundred people gathered this Saturday at the beginning of the afternoon in Paris to protest against the possible dissolution of the radical far-right movement Generation Identity, a measure long demanded by several associations but denounced by the RN, a noted an AFP journalist.

“The decision to dissolve Generation Identity does not hold water.

At no time did they break the law.

It's political gesticulation, ”said Patrick Hays, vice-president of the Jean-Marie Le Pen Institution being created, on Place Denfert-Rochereau, in the 14th arrondissement, cordoned off by the police and a very visible order service.

The entourage of the founder of the FN (ex-RN) Jean-Marie Le Pen will not be "physically present but the heart is there", said his entourage, specifying that he was represented by Patrick Hays.

The “social anti-fascist response” in Montparnasse

Around him, demonstrators chanted “We are home!

", Others held up signs" Dissolved because of identity ", while some sported caps with the slogan" Make America Great Again ", similar to those worn during Donald Trump's campaign in the United States.

At the podium, the speeches “thanked” the polemicist Eric Zemmour “for defending our ideas”, as well as the former FN deputy, Marion Maréchal, and the former FN members Florian Philippot and Jean Messiha for having shown their support.

At the same time, less than a kilometer away, in the Montparnasse district, a hundred demonstrators were gathered at the call of the Union syndicale Solidaires Paris in particular, with the slogan "social anti-fascist response. ".

This gathering was banned by the police headquarters on the grounds that the gathering was declared "out of time".

At around 2:30 p.m., the police asked the demonstrators to leave the square.

"It's scandalous to have banned a poor peaceful gathering like ours, there are more police forces than demonstrators while there the neo-Nazis are quietly demonstrating", declared Karine, 36, who did not did not want to give his last name.

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