In a letter, the president of the RN deputies asks Elisabeth Borne to “dissolve” the “extremist groups”, “whatever their political profile”. With the desire not to be “dirty” by the actions of the ultra-right, which recently carried out violent raids against people of foreign origin.
By Clément Guillou
Marine Le Pen no longer wishes to be associated with the radical extreme right, with whom she nevertheless recruited recently. In a letter to Elisabeth Borne, the leader of deputies National Rally (RN) claims the dissolution “of group associations, whatever their political profile”, responsible in recent years of “multiple violence”. The mail, made public Tuesday, December 20, vaguely designates “extremist groups”, whose violent members must be “severely condemned and then, at the end of their sentence, be the subject of controls in order to avoid any recurrence and this , whatever their political profile “.
This is not the first time that Marine Le Pen has demanded the dissolution of violent groups. But, so far, it had always targeted only the radical autonomous left, gathered under the term “ antifas “. This time, the frontist leader maintains an ambiguity; But the mail is part of a context of renewed manifestations of identity groups, through symbolic or violent actions. “Today there is a more important recruitment of far-right groups, you have to be vigilant and cry wolf,” explains the deputy RN of the Somme Jean-Philippe Tanguy, cosignation of the mail of M me Le Pen.
For several months, a nebula of local groups who took the identity generation relay, a national platform dissolved in 2021, has multiplied acts of aggression against left or far left activists. The evening of the France-Maroc match, in the semi-final of the World Cup of football, on December 14, was the scene of violent raids against people of foreign origin, in Lyon and Nice, in particular. In Paris, 38 people close to the extreme radical right were arrested, including fifteen “S” S “and some figures of the identity movement, former members of the Zouaves, dissolved in January.
trace a line between RN and Reconquer
The media and political interest nourished for the actions of the ultra-right therefore prompted the RN to dissociate it. In doing so, the RN also seeks to draw a line between him and the party of Eric Zemmour, very active on social networks upstream of France-Morocco, and accused by the left of having encouraged the clashes. Once again, the Party with 89 deputies intends to take advantage of the perfect notable tool that constitutes, by its outrage
“I wanted to cut short all the insinuations that try to get dirty by analogy or capillarity, explains Jean-Philippe Tanguy. We are totally opposed to all these people, who spend their lives insulting us, who hate us “Continues the second of Marine Le Pen in the National Assembly. Why be careful not to designate identity groups? “To name them is to reduce the scope of the fight”, argues the elected RN, which also says target “radical environmental groups”.
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