A resolution motion, presented by Insoumis MP Thomas Portes and co-signed by a hundred or so Nupes colleagues, points to the emergence of multiple small “identitarian and neo-Nazi” groups in the country.
“Our responsibility today is to put them under surveillance, to see who they are, to identify them to prevent tragedies,” due to the violence of these groups, Mr. Portes told reporters at the Palais Bourbon.
“Exacerbated racism and violence”
It is necessary to trace “their financing networks,” he added, also believing that these “small groups have ties to the parties, both RN and Reconquista.”
Its development “is part of a context of racism and exacerbated violence in society,” he said, citing in particular the degradations that target Muslim places of worship.
The deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis judged that the government had “a responsibility” in the situation, citing in particular the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, who according to him takes up “the elements of the language of the RN” on immigration.
In the Assembly, LFI has created an internal “working group” to monitor parliamentary activity and the positions taken by Marine Le Pen’s group, Thomas Portes further said.
A very hypothetical commission of inquiry
LFI MPs do not plan at this stage to use their “drawing rights” for this commission of inquiry (possibility for each group to create one commission of inquiry per year), making its establishment hypothetical.
Several plans for violent action by small far-right groups, particularly against political figures, have been thwarted in recent years.
Alleged members of the ‘Barjols’, a group close to the identity, were indicted between 2018 and 2022, suspected of having planned an attack against Emmanuel Macron in 2018.
The members of the “Honneur et Action” group were indicted in 2021 and 2022 for “terrorist criminal association”.
In October, the Marseille criminal court sentenced members of Génération identitaire to up to a year in prison for a violent commando operation at the Marseille headquarters of SOS Méditerranée, an NGO helping immigrants, in 2018.
Source: BFM TV
