The rally was held Friday on the Place du Panthéon in Paris at the call of a small ultra-right group in tribute to young Thomas, killed during a village festival in Drôme, and to denounce the laxity of the justice and the State.
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“Justice for Thomas!”, chant ultra-right activists with arms in the air, sometimes hooded. The ultra-right was finally able to demonstrate on the evening of Friday December 1 in Paris. The gathering was authorized at the last minute by the Paris administrative court. About 200 people gathered at the foot of the Pantheon to pay tribute to Thomas, the young man killed by a stabbing weapon in Crépol in the Drôme but also to denounce, according to these far-right activists, the laxity of justice and the complacency vis-à-vis migrants.
The first target for these activists is judges. “They are politicized”denounces Antoine who speaks for Les Natifs, heirs of the dissolved ultra-right group Génération Identitaire. “Whether it is the sentences which we believe are too light, or the application of sentences, whether it is prison or the monitoring of people, we are really failing.”
A position relayed by other nationalist identity collectives such as Argos or Nemesis. A poster is displayed above which reads: “Yesterday Lola, Today Thomas. French wake up !”. One of the ultra-right activists speaks to the crowd: “LoLa was killed by an Algerian woman, if the State had done its job, if the State had protected the French, Lola would still be alive.”
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Sounds like a political meeting
The second target is the State and its migration policy. Jean-Yves Le Gallou, figure of the radical far right, speaks. This former member of the National Front and a supporter of Eric Zemmour. “The government’s policy is also the prohibition of being able to say that there is a link between immigration and Islamism, and delinquency. We have the right to advocate remigration.”
“I am scandalized by the demonstration in Paris. The police prefect, on my instructions, banned it, the courts authorized it”, reacted the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, during the night in the Assembly, at the very end of the committee examination of the immigration bill. The participants refute the term xenophobic, they target the media and their “good thinking” during this tribute which took on the air of a political meeting.