A request in good and due form to Matignon. Marine Le Pen sent a letter this weekend to Elisabeth Borne asking her to “disband” the “extremist groups”.
This letter arrives at the Prime Minister’s office as the night of the Morocco-France semi-final was marked by rallies of far-right activists.
Aim for the far left and the far right
“For many years, our country has faced multiple forms of violence, particularly from extremist groups, not to mention their ideological proselytizing,” it read.
The letter, co-signed by Jean-Philippe Tanguy, one of the party’s rising figures in the National Assembly, does not specifically cite any event. This allows the movement to first target groups on the extreme left “that have been rotting social movements for years,” Marine Le Pen’s entourage advances to BFMTV.
A note from the central territorial intelligence service, revealed by the parisianThus, it shows itself to be concerned about “the appropriation by the black blocs of the ecological struggle”. A hundred violent actions were recorded in 2022, from the sabotage of construction works to the burning of repeater antennas.
“Mouses”
But the National Rally’s letter is also meant to show that the movement is strongly opposed to the resurgence of far-right groups in recent years.
The semifinal between Morocco and France on December 14 was marred by numerous incidents, from Nice to Montpellier via Lyon, described as “mouse” by the left.
In Paris, around forty activists were arrested, sometimes armed with knives, including Marc de Caqueray, the founder of Zouaves Paris. This small group, now dissolved, had in its ranks several people implicated during Éric Zemmour’s meeting in December 2021 for having beaten SOS Racisme activists.
“The Useful Idiots of Power”
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 identities, were indicted between 2018 and 2022, suspected of having planned an attack against Emmanuel Macron.
There is no doubt, therefore, that the head of the National Association, who intends to gain notoriety by relying on his 88 deputies in the National Assembly, will assimilate to these movements.
“The small groups are the useful idiots of power that uses them to rot the debate with their violence,” explains another close friend of Marine Le Pen.
Surveillance of far-right networks
“These misdeeds must be systematically subject to an adequate criminal response. The perpetrators of these offenses and sometimes of these crimes must be severely sentenced and then, at the end of their sentence, be subject to control in order to avoid their recidivism”, the letter to Élisabeth Borne further advances.
The executive seems to take the phenomenon seriously. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin had requested specific monitoring of far-right networks for the World Cup final. For his part, Nupes called at the beginning of November for the creation of an investigative commission to “follow small groups of the extreme right”, pointing to the appearance of “identitarian and neo-Nazi” groups.
Source: BFM TV
