Several weapons were also seized, said Marseille, Tuesday, in a statement.
Le Monde with Reuters
Thirteen alleged members of a group with the ideology “identity, racist and violent” were arrested and placed in custody, Tuesday, November 23, to be heard in the context of judicial information open on May 5th in Marseille heads of organization of a combat group and participation in the latter.
Twelve men and a woman, aged 21 to 52, were arrested throughout the national territory by the investigators of the Central Office Hain Crime Crimes Division Humanity, genocides and war crimes and with several sections of research of the National Gendarmerie, clarified the Marseille prosecutor’s office in a statement. Several weapons have also been seized, he added.
A group called recolonization France
These activists who belong to According to BFM-TV to a group of ultradroite baptized recolonization France,” are suspected of belonging to a structured and organized group at the national and regional level, composed of more than one hundred and ten members, including military or former military, divided throughout the territory, exchanging and gathering around an identity, racist and violent ideology, particularly conveyed through social networks, “said the Parquet of Marseille.
Participating in a combat group is punishable by three years imprisonment and € 45,000 in the penal code, while the organization of a combat group is punished by five years of imprisonment and 75,000 euros fine.
The recolonization group, which calls for the constitution of armed groups, is subject to monitoring by the General Directorate of Inland Security since the summer of 2020.