Several nets were carried out in 2021 against extreme right-wing groups, accused of preparing violent actions. Thus, on October 21, the conspirator Rémy Daillet was indicted for plans to attack a small ultra-right group; on November 17, the identity group L’Alvarium was dissolved in the Council of Ministers. Monday, December 6, franceinfo therefore lifts the veil on these ultra-right groups which are preparing for a possible civil war.
They are called “accelerationists”: this word was used in particular after the arrest by the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI) in the South-West of two activists, suspected of having called for violent actions on a mailbox encrypted. These people are convinced that a racial war will break out in France and that it must therefore be provoked.
On the encrypted Telegram messaging, we see documents circulating relayed by followers of survivalism, sometimes former soldiers, who find themselves on social networks: rules of survival in the midst of chaos, combat guides in urban areas … far-right loop Gallican family, followed by 1,200 people, some shoot with weapons at racist cartoons representing a Jewish, Muslim or black person.
“The training [que l’on prône] is considered more from a defense point of view. I don’t want to end up like Samuel Paty “, justifies Pépito, who presents himself as the founder of the Gallican Family. If he assumes his position, he nevertheless defends himself from preparing a terrorist project. “I want to live with people who love France and who respect its values. Islam is indomitable and was created to lead”, he assures.
He believes that the issue is broader than whether or not adherence to the great replacement theory. “You cannot tell me that you do not realize that a population from Africa is joining Europe.” He judges that Islam is “incompatible” with France. “It is not made to live with the Republic.”
On the Telegram France Gallicane loop, franceinfo even heard one of the members apologize for Brenton Tarrant, the far-right terrorist who attacked two mosques in Christchurch (New Zealand), in March 2019, killing 51 people. This man is today a reference for these accelerationist groups.
Beyond the training to which they devote themselves, these activists also pour out their hatred on social networks: threats of beheading, ropes sent to the campaign premises of certain elected officials … Thus, after an investigation on the Gallican family, support armed with Zemmour, Mathieu Molard, the editor in chief of StreetPress was very violently taken to task. “J‘ve unfortunately already received death threats in the past but there, I received several thousand messages of insults, mockery and death threats in twenty-four hours “, testifies Mathieu Molard. It even goes as far as a photo montage: “On saw my face alongside those of Jean-Luc Mélenchon [le leader de La France insoumise], Daniele Obono, [députée LFI] and Anne Franck [adolescente juive allemande morte en déportation]. There was a target on the forehead and a fairly explicit call for murder, with a link to a site where you can buy guns. “ StreetPress then decides to publish the photomontage and investigate.
Institutional actors are also seeing an increase in violence. “We are going all at once from racial and sexist insult to the threat of death, which is new. The threat is increasingly characterized, violent and targeted.”, notes criminal lawyer Jade Dousselin. Since September, she has opened two cases per week for violence physical, death threats or cyberbullying from this ultra-right movement. She feels that there are no more limits: “When will the threat pass from the stage of the Internet or letters to the reality of a physical threat? We begin to see that this physical threat can intervene. We absolutely have to find the solutions to stop this surge of hatred that can come off social media and into real life. “
The question of taking action is also that which the intelligence services are asking themselves. It is also a very preoccupying threat and taken seriously, according to the sources consulted by Franceinfo, because the movement is making new recruits every day. The information fears a passage to the act of scale, for example against a mosque, as in Christchurch. The surveillance of all these networks has therefore been reinforced, but it is difficult to identify clandestine exchanges on encrypted messaging when it comes to unidentified and unknown profiles of the DGSI and which, overnight, can switch to an accelerationist ideology.
At the same time, the sources that Franceinfo interviewed say they see an unprecedented level of hatred against institutions and the head of state, Emmanuel Macron. Anti-vaccine, health pass, “yellow vests” … The Covid-19 crisis favors this ideology. According to the intelligence services, the military column published in April in Current values on the disintegration of France or the speeches of Eric Zemmour relegitizing the fact of training and taking up arms. The phenomenon also challenges the national anti-terrorism prosecution, seized eleven times since 2017, while it had hardly ever been before. A total of 48 people have been indicted on threats of an attack from the ultra-right and seven legal proceedings are underway.