A Generation Identity event, in Paris on November 17, 2019. -
Remon Haazen // SIPA
This is a measure long called for by several associations and political parties.
Gérald Darmanin announced on Twitter on Saturday evening that he had initiated the procedure for the dissolution of the far-right group Generation Identity.
"This organization now has 10 days to respond to the contradictory", wrote the Minister of the Interior.
Gérald Darmanin had mentioned this procedure on January 26 after an anti-migrant operation of the small group in the Pyrenees.
A preliminary investigation for "public provocation to racial hatred" was opened in the wake.
Identity generation: the dissolution procedure is initiated.
This organization now has 10 days to respond to the contradictory.
https://t.co/LOaCsfYMhM
- Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) February 13, 2021
This investigation entrusted to the research brigade of the gendarmerie of Saint-Gaudens is justified by "remarks made on [a] very clearly anti-immigration banner and especially the reason why this banner was deployed", explained the prosecutor of Saint-Gaudens (Haute-Garonne), Christophe Amunzateguy.
A complaint from SOS Racisme was also received.
About thirty militants were deployed between Luchon (Haute-Garonne) and the Spanish border.
With cars screened "Defend Europe", they had settled at the Col du Portillon, some had gone on hikes using a drone to monitor the border.
Executives relaxed in December
The actions of the small group could fall, according to the code of internal security (CSI), of "incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence against a person or a group of people because of their origin".
In December, Génération Identitaire and three of its executives had on the other hand been released by the Grenoble Court of Appeal for previous anti-migrant operations carried out in 2018 in the Alps, on the Franco-Italian border.
In 2019, the dissolutions of several ultra-right groups, including Bastion Social, Blood and Honor and Combat 18, were pronounced at the request of Emmanuel Macron, but that of Generation Identity appeared more difficult to materialize.
"They are smarter than the others, try as much as possible not to cross the yellow lines, but push the plug each time a little further", then underlined the Ministry of the Interior.
The headquarters of Génération Identitaire is located in Lyon but the association also has a historical section in Paris and branches in Dijon, Aix-en-Provence, Montpellier and Normandy.
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