• A “community complex” has opened in Vieux-Lyon by merging two places linked to the far-right Lyon.

  • The founders of the Remparts deny any desire to renew politics there, while attracting “patriots and young people with roots in Lyon”.

  • Politicians warn against this association which could revive the extremist group Génération Identitaire, officially dissolved, under another name.

Les Remparts, a “community complex” opened on September 11 in Old Lyon, raises fears of a reformation of the far-right association Génération Identitaire in another form.

This place merges the bar La Traboule and the boxing hall L'Agogé, two addresses popular with far-right activists in Lyon.

La Traboule was already the head office of Génération Identitaire, officially dissolved in March, by decision of the Ministry of the Interior, "for inciting discrimination, hatred and violence".

No posted policy

The founders of the Remparts deny any desire to remake politics. "From now on, the two premises which form a complex rooted in more than 180 m2 will devote to a community, cultural and sporting role rather than a political one," they say in a press release. While announcing that the Remparts are intended for "the patriots and young people rooted in Lyon", affirming that "our history and our culture tend to be erased in favor of the woke trend", and that "we will form the real ramparts facing this society which denies us and fights us on a daily basis ”, through“ community and cultural ”activities and boxing training.

The LREM deputy Thomas Rudigoz alerted the prefect this summer to this possible reformation of Génération Identitaire under another name, followed by the Rhône senator Thomas Dossus, who calls for "vigilance (...) vis-à-vis this new organization which seems to us to take back the objectives and the means of Génération Identitaire ”.

Presented as “Lyon's House of Identity”, the Remparts were inaugurated on September 11 with a “Serbian evening”, followed by the broadcast of a boxing match.

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