On Tuesday, an alleged leader of the group had already been arrested. They are suspected of having participated in the violence during Eric Zemmour’s meeting on December 5.
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A second member of the “Zouaves Paris” was arrested Wednesday, December 15 in Bonnières-sur-Seine in the Yvelines, France Inter learned from a source close to the investigation, the day after the arrest of the alleged leader of the group, suspected of being involved in the violence committed against SOS Racisme activists during a meeting of Eric Zemmour in Villepinte on December 5.
Investigators must determine the role these two men played in the punch and chair assault on anti-racist activists who had made a happening during this first major event of the far-right candidate’s campaign. . This assault, filmed, had toured social networks.
The leader arrested Tuesday, Marc de Cacqueray-Valmenier, is known to the courts: he has already been sentenced to six months in prison for violence during demonstrations of yellow vests in December 2018 in Paris and he is involved in the attack on a bar frequented by anti-fascists in the XXth arrondissement of Paris in June 2020.
In total, around fifty people have been identified by the police as belonging to the Zouaves, this tiny ultra-right group. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced last Sunday that he had initiated a procedure for the dissolution of the Zouaves.