• A wild demonstration in memory of the young Lola took place Friday evening in Lyon

  • Nearly 150 people, members or sympathizers of the ultra right, marched screaming "immigrant murderers"

  • On Monday, the mayor of Lyon, Grégory Doucet, wrote to Emmanuel Macron asking him to dissolve the "Remparts" group.

Videos posted on social networks quickly made the rounds of the Web.

Friday evening, between 100 to 150 people gathered in Lyon in memory of Lola, shouting “immigrant murderers”, and brandishing a banner: “Immigration kills.

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While the action was claimed on Twitter by an executive of the ultra-right "Remparts" group, the mayor of Lyon, Grégory Doucet, wrote to the President of the Republic on Monday to request "the immediate dissolution" of this structure, "heiress of the Génération identitaire association", itself dissolved in March 2021.

“Unacceptable resurgence of acts of violence”

"Since September 2022, we have again seen an unacceptable resurgence of acts of violence claimed by far-right and ultra-right movements in our city", argues the elected official, affirming his "firm desire to act" against "those and those who incite hatred and demonstrate violent and anti-republican behavior”.

"The indecent political recovery of a tragic affair, mixing amalgams and stigmatizations, must be fought", he underlines in a letter sent to

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Indicating having "already alerted" the Ministers of Justice and the Interior about this small group, Grégory Doucet also calls for "definitively closing" the associative bar La Traboule, known as a stronghold of those nostalgic for Generation Identity and the sport L'Agogé, which presents itself as "the first identity sports hall in France".

On the other hand, the Rhône prefecture told AFP that it was "extremely vigilant about the activities of small groups" on the far right.

Ella clarified that the prefect of the Rhône had made a report to the Lyon prosecutor concerning "the xenophobic and hateful remarks" made during the "undeclared demonstration" on Friday.


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  • Company

  • Murder of Lola

  • Far right

  • ultra-straight

  • Identity generation

  • Lyons

  • Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

  • Xenophobia