The Génération Identitaire association is beautiful and well dissolved.
The Council of State, seized by GI following the decision of the government confirmed the latter.
He considers that this measure is "proportionate to the seriousness of the risks".
The spokesperson for the group denounces a "political decision".
The Council of State estimated Monday that the dissolution of the far-right group Generation Identity was "proportionate to the seriousness of the risks to public order and public security resulting from the activities of the association" which had contested via a summary -suspension its dissolution decreed in March.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, who had initiated the dissolution procedure, greeted in a tweet on Monday evening a "clear observation" from the Council of State.
Identity generation tends to "justify or encourage discrimination" according to the Council of State
The spokesperson for Génération identitaire (GI) Thaïs Descufon, for her part, denounced a "political decision".
"It's not a surprise, we had little chance that our request would be heard, but it is nonetheless scandalous," she reacted to AFP.
Friday, the association had contested before the summary judge its dissolution, decreed on March 3 and justified according to the government by the "incitement to discrimination, hatred and violence" and the "will to act as than private militia ".
The Council of State confirms the dissolution of the Génération identitaire association.
His observation is clear: Génération Identitaire promotes an ideology that incites hatred and violence.
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- Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) May 3, 2021
An observation that joins the Council of State.
"This association, under the guise of contributing, according to its statements, to the public debate on immigration and the fight against Islamist terrorism, has been propagating, for several years, ideas (...) tending to justify or encourage discrimination, hatred or violence towards foreigners and the Muslim religion, ”he said.
Maintain "xenophobic or racist feelings"
During the hearing, the defense considered that the association was only participating in the public debate on "the link between immigration and terrorism, and more generally insecurity", by adopting "a firm and hard position": "to stop immigration ", according to Me Pierre Robillot. The representative of the Ministry of the Interior Pascale Léglise, on the other hand, defended that GI by maintaining an "amalgamation between immigrants, foreigners, Muslims and Islamists" put "fuel on the fire".
In its ordinance, the Council of State agreed with this. "The association also organizes events creating or maintaining xenophobic or racist feelings," said the court. The Council of State also considered that the association used "warlike imagery and rhetoric" and refused to transmit to the Constitutional Council the priority question of constitutionality (QPC) of the association.
Created in 2012, the association law 1901, whose number of activists and sympathizers was estimated before dissolution at 800 at most by specialists, became known by occupying the site of a mosque under construction in Poitiers. She then deployed a banner evoking "732" when "Charles Martel defeated the Arabs in Poitiers". An anti-migrant operation, carried out in the Pyrenees at the end of January, had "scandalized" the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin who had initiated the dissolution procedure.