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In a press launch, Nathalie Appéré, mayor (Socialist Party) of Rennes and candidate for re-election, “strongly” criticized the holding, this Saturday, of a tribute to far-right activist Quentin Deranque. The councilor denounced an indication organized by “the extreme right of identity (…) brought by a local activist implicated in cases of violence and violation of the internal security code.

The activist in question is named Yovan Delourme. On the Place de la République, this Saturday, the hundred participants in the tribute mainly know the organizer by his pseudonym: The Jarl. An influencer with several hundred thousand subscribers on social networks, this fifty-year-old with a finely trimmed salt-and-pepper beard is multiplying his videos on insecurity, predicts a ” chaos “ imminent in the country and depicts the Breton capital in cutthroat terms.

The Jarl is regularly invited to broadcasts by the Bolloré group, on Sud Radio or Frontières. A fan of MMA, he published his autobiography in 2025 in which he praises his punitive expeditions and his “educational caps”. Former head of safety at a Rennes nightclub, Yovan Delourme was fired in March 2025 following violence which pushed the justice system to take an curiosity in his strategies.

During this Saturday morning’s occasion, The Jarl proclaims “be a fighting man ready to die to protect you”hammers “his anger” however calls for “calm” whereas a counter-demonstration chants anti-fascist slogans a bit of additional on: “I repeat it particularly to some very, very right-wing folks right here. Don’t reply something. I pledged my honor. Don’t disappoint me! » The influencer should have one-on-one conferences with round thirty native ultra-right activists to persuade them to depart the premises easily. One of them will get aggravated: “Respect us, we who act within the shadows. » The Jarl continues: “Respect me, the organizer of this occasion. »