Bruno Retailleau wants to dissolve the young anti -fascist guard – Liberation

The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, announced this Tuesday, April 29, before the National Assembly, initiate a contradictory procedure against the far left movement the young anti -fascist guard for a possible dissolution.

« I want to confirm to you that in a few hours, the contradictory procedure against the young guard who must bring, I hope, to this dissolution, will be engaged », replied Bruno Retailleau, questioned by deputy RN Sébastien Chenu on a possible dissolution of this movement, during the session of questions to the government. « This will be an opportunity for the young guard to assert her rights and it is an opportunity for us to bring, I hope at the end, the procedure of dissolution », added the minister.

The young guard, whose spokesperson is The LFI deputy for Vaucluse Raphaël Arnault, was founded in 2018 in Lyon, in reaction to the presence increasingly marked in this city of far -right activists. Their actions are concentrated in the street, especially during rallies. They were very present during demonstrations against pension reform in 2023.

« In the middle of an Islamophobic porridge, and under the RN’s request, Retailleau announces to engage the dissolution of the young guard. It is an essential antifascist tool in the period, the extreme right understood it well and tries to destroy us. Everyone will have to answer present ”, immediately reacted the LFI deputy to his X account.

At the end of June 2024, eight members of the young guard were indicted, suspected of having attacked a teenager in May Identified as a member of the Jewish Defense League (a radical group) in the Paris metro after a conference for support for Gaza in Rima Hassan. According to the prosecution, there was « Gestures », But no blows targeting the victim.

Once the contradictory is launched, the movement will have a period of fifteen days to expose its arguments.