In Paris, practically a thousand extremely -right activists paraded on Saturday, on the name of the neofascist group Committee of May 9 | EUROtoday

While the Paris administrative courtroom had lastly licensed the rally on the final minute, round a thousand folks paraded Saturday, May 10, afternoon within the capital on the decision of the neofascist group of the committee of May 9, in keeping with the Paris police headquarters. In whole, 13 folks, together with counter-demonstrators, had been arrested.

The far -right group Manifesto yearly for the anniversary of the dying of one among his activists, Sébastien Deyzieu, unintentionally died in 1994. This younger activist of the French work, Pétainist and Anti -Semitic group, fell with a roof on May 7, 1994 throughout a prosecution with the police throughout a convened demonstration “Against American imperialism”prohibited by the prefecture.

Behind a banner “Sébastien Deyzieu present”these ultra-right activists, typically wearing black and his face hidden, walked on Saturday between Port-Royal and rue des Chartreux (6^e Arrondissement), the place Mr. Deyzieu had died thirty -one years in the past.

Supervised by a hooded order service and monitored by important workers forces, the parade came about with out a notable incident, regardless of some mortar pictures by anti-fascist counter-mailifies close to the procession. Arrived on rue des Chartreux, activists, a few of whom got here from Germany, Italy, Hungary and even Spain, collected in small teams close to the constructing from which the activist had dropped.

Celtic cross and Nazi symbols

According to a journalist from the France-Presse company on the spot, they notably sang a number of instances “Europe, youth, revolution” – The slogan of the far-right pupil union GUD (Union Defense group), dissolved in June 2024. Many members additionally displayed Celtic cross flags and for among the T-shirts evoking Nazi iconography, in addition to the Hooligan motion.

The Paris police headquarters initially prohibited this annual occasion by arguing the chance of public order problems. But the executive courtroom of the capital suspended this measure on Friday night, believing that “The same event organized last year had not given rise to any prosecution of demonstrators”.

The administrative courtroom, nevertheless, maintained the ban on a “Antifascist and anti -racist demonstration”as requested by the capital prefect of the capital, Laurent Nuñez, arguing that this counter-demonstration was deliberate for a similar course because the demonstration organized by the May 9 and May Committee and “Would have led to mixing the participants with each of these manifestations whose ideological antagonisms are strong”. The decide additionally “Given the fact that members of the organizations who supported the demonstration had committed acts of violence in the past”.

Several hundred members of the far -right group, together with nationalist songs, provocations and Nazi tattoos had shocked in 2023, had been in a position to parade final 12 months with impunity throughout an illustration licensed by the executive courtroom.