"If the elements are gathered, I would not hesitate to propose the dissolution".

Here is what Gérald Darmanin said, Tuesday, January 26, about Generation Identity.

The Minister of the Interior said he was "scandalized by the work of undermining the Republic" of members of the extreme right-wing group, who last week led an anti-migrant operation between Luchon (Haute-Garonne) and the '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.

It is the first time that the Minister of the Interior 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 - the CCIF, BarakaCity or the 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.

Gérald Darmanin studies the dissolution of Generation Identity

I asked the services of the Ministry of the Interior to bring together the elements that would make it possible to propose the dissolution of #GenerationIdentitaire.

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- Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) January 26, 2021

Last Tuesday, around thirty activists from the identity group, "in cars screened with 'Defend Europe'", settled at the Col du Portillon [road pass in the central Pyrenees], some "went on a hike" and using "a drone" to watch 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.

With AFP

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