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France bans extreme-right group over violence against anti-racists at Zemmour rally
[IsraelTimes] Decree says Zouaves Gay Paree group propagated ’openly racist discourse;’ members blamed for attacks on protestors at Jewish “far-right”
...scare quotes mine...
presidential candidate’s campaign event.

La Belle France banned an extreme-right youth group Wednesday known as the "Zouaves Gay Paree," who are blamed for attacks on anti-racism activists at a raucous rally last month by far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour.
...the eminent, contrary Le Figaro columnist and nationalist public intellectual whose Jewish Berber parents left Algeria for la belle France in the 1950s...
"The group ’Zouaves Gay Paree’ was banned this morning at a cabinet meeting, in line with the instructions of the President" Emmanuel Macron, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin wrote on Twitter, saying the group had incited "hatred and violence."

The decree prohibiting the group, founded in 2017 and believed to have only around 20 hardcore members, said it "propagated an openly racist discourse" that included "symbols of Nazi ideology" and "white superiority."
Putting on Nazi symbols causes the IQ to drop by 25 points.
Members were accused of assaulting activists from SOS Racisme
...officially an activist arm of various Socialist political parties across Europe, but in the case of the Norwegian branch both open Maoists and convicted fraudsters. If not actually Antifa, they provide the sea in which Antifa activists swim...
at the December 5 rally by Zemmour shortly after the controversial pundit announced his candidacy for the 2022 presidential elections.
Queerly enough, it appears neither SOS Racisme nor any of the other 50 or so left and far left groups protesting Mr Zemmour that day have been reported as banned, despite the fact that they were the ones who started the festivities. But France has a tradition of violent leftists that goes back to the French Revolution.
Its leader Marc de Cacqueray-Valmenier, 23, was detained and charged with assault. The group takes its name from elite units of French troops who fought in Africa in the 19th century.

Zemmour, who is Jewish, is accused by opponents of being a racist, an allegation he denies. He has, however, repeatedly criticized Islam and immigration, which he says are harming French identity.

The rally was marked by festivities with anti-racism activists, and Zemmour himself was at one point put in a headlock and suffered an injury to his wrist.

Zemmour’s campaign enjoyed a surge in popularity ahead of the declaration of his candidacy, but it appears to have slackened in recent weeks, although most polls still predict he will win around 15 percent in the first round.

He is currently facing a struggle to muster the 500 signatures needed from French mayors to formally register his candidacy.

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