Paris (AFP)
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Tuesday he was "scandalized" by the anti-migrant operations of Generation Identity (GI) in the Alps and the Pyrenees and announced that he had asked his services to bring together the elements to dissolve the extreme right-wing group.
"If the elements are gathered, I would not hesitate to propose the dissolution", declared the minister, "scandalized by the work of undermining the Republic of the militants of Generation Identity", who carried out last week an anti-operation. migrants between Luchon (Haute-Garonne) and Spain.
The ministry will act "obviously within the framework of the laws and regulations of the Republic by proposing in particular, once these elements are gathered, the contradictory due to each association", added Gérald Darmanin in Paris during the monthly press conference on the activity of the police.
This is the first time that Mr. Darmanin publicly condemns the actions of this small group and evokes the possibility of its dissolution.
In recent weeks, his ministry had obtained that of associations suspected of links with Islamism (CCIF, BarakaCity, Cheikh Yassine collective).
Several elected officials from Occitania including the socialist regional president, Carole Delga, last week asked the Interior Ministry to dissolve "this tiny extreme right-wing group, violent and dangerous" after their punching action in the Pyrenees.
Last Tuesday, around thirty GI activists "in screen-printed cars + Defend Europe +" settled at the Col du Portillon, some "gone on a hike" and using "a drone" to monitor the border.
According to a message from Generation Identity posted on social networks, this campaign intended to fight against the "terrorist and migratory risk in the Pyrenees".
In December, Génération Identitaire and three of its executives were released by the Grenoble Court of Appeal for previous anti-migrant operations carried out in 2018 in the Alps, on the Franco-Italian border.
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