Gérald Darmanin will propose the dissolution of three small far-right groups, including Division Martel

On France Inter, the Minister of the Interior assures that the government “has been fighting far-right groups for a very long time”

The Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin announced this Tuesday on France Inter that he will “propose the end of the small group Division Martel” and of “two others“small far-right groups, after the xenophobic punitive expedition carried out last weekend in Romans-sur-Isère, in the Drôme. The minister also specifies that “just the name“Martel Division”obviously scares us“.

Gérald Darmanin assures that the government “has been fighting far-right groups for a very long time“. He thus recalls that it was he who initiated the procedure for dissolving the Génération Identitaire group in 2021, after an anti-migrant operation in the Pyrenees. “Of the forty dissolutions that I have proposed since I became Minister of the Interior, two have been rejected by the Council of State and I note that all the small ultra-right groups were dissolved when I proposed them to the President of the Republic“, adds the Minister of the Interior.

They “have no place in the Republic“, Olivier Véran, government spokesperson, also insisted on franceinfo: “We must all firmly and uncompromisingly condemn this violence committed by the ultra-right.“, he adds.

A “dozen ultra-right attacks” foiled

Gérald Darmanin also states that “13 ultra-right attacks have been foiled since 2017″. And if he recognizes that “it has nothing to do with the proportion of Islamist attacks foiled (40 since 2017)“, Gérald Darmanin judges the number “Very important”. In total, “1,300 people are on S file in France for the ultra-right”he specifies.

Faced with this observation, the Minister of the Interior promises that he will not “will let no militia, of the extreme right or of any radical movement, make the law in place of the public prosecutors and the police and gendarmes“. Gérald Darmanin assures that “the vile drama of Thomas [adolescent tué à Crépol, dans la Drôme, le 19 novembre], the arrests [des suspects] who must answer for their actions, must not allow someone else to stand up in the name of the State to do justice“.