The Council of State suspends the dissolution of the anti-fascist group Lyon and surroundings, known as “La Gale”, decided by the government last March, France Inter learned on Monday May 16 from the lawyer for the ultra-left group and the Council of ‘State.
The judges in chambers “believe that the elements put forward by the Minister of the Interior do not demonstrate that Gale incited to commit violent actions and seriously disturbed public order”specifies the Council of State in a press release.
According to them, while the group did relay calls to participate in demonstrations that seriously disturbed public order, it was not the origin of these calls in the first place. Similarly, the judges consider that, if the group shares with a “questionable complacency” information on violence against the police, he did not call for it either.
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The Council of State has just suspended the dissolution of the Antifascist Group Lyon and Surroundings following the appeals brought by our lawyers.
It is thanks to the collective balance of power imposed by the struggle that such a decision could be pulled off.@comitessupport69 pic.twitter.com/rZLRUvo5FN— Antifa Lyon Group (@antifa_lyon) May 16, 2022
Beauvau had decided to dissolve the movement by a decree at the end of March. In a 30-page report, the Ministry of the Interior had explained that it reproached this organization for having provoked anti-police hatred, for having called for rallies which had generated numerous outbursts and in particular for having led expeditions punitive measures against far-right activists. Knives and hammers had been found in the belongings of a person assimilated to this group.
At the beginning of May, Gale’s lawyer, Me Olivier Forray, filed an interim relief with the Council of State. He assured France Inter that“Onne [savait] still not if that person [avait] any connection with Gale”recalling that this group did not have “the exclusive fight against the far right”.
He estimated “notoriously insufficient” elements of the Ministry of the Interior against Gale and denounced the “difference in treatment”by the police, far-left activists and far-right activists, claiming that this could be explained by a “very high promiscuity” of the extreme right with the police services.