four alleged ultra-right activists indicted in Lyon
Four people suspected of belonging to the ultra-right were indicted this Friday, December 16 in Lyon following the violence that had marred the celebrations after the match of the semi-final of the France-Morocco World Cup last Wednesday, announced the floor.
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Clashes opposed supporters and a group of young people visibly belonging to the far right, who came to fight Place Bellecour on Wednesday December 14 during the semi-final of the France-Morocco World Cup.
This Friday, December 16, four of the eight suspects were indicted “facts of participation in a group formed with a view to preparing violence or degradation and participation in a crowd with a weapon and/or concealed face”, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
They “are suspected of belonging to the ultra-right movement and of having participated” has a “gathering with a view to committing racially motivated violence”.
The prosecution has opened a judicial investigation which “should allow the identification and arrest of co-authors or accomplices likely to have participated in the commission of these facts or in their preparation”.
On Thursday, many local elected officials spoke out about this violence and the municipal council voted on a wish, proposed at the initiative of the left, asking “permanent closure” in the Vieux-Lyon of the strongholds of identity, a bar (“La Traboule”) and a boxing gym (“Agogé”).
These premises continue “to be the rallying point for far-right groups that continue to regularly exercise violence on our territory”, denounce the elected officials, in general that the Traboule “was the headquarters of the dissolved organization +Génération Identitaire+”.
The elected officials also recalled that Wednesday’s incident was added to a series of others for a few months: a parade in Lyon, on October 21, “with racist slogans” on the sidelines of a rally in memory of Lola, a teenager savagely killed in Paris, a violent clash with blows “category D weapons” (batons and tear gas canisters), on November 26, against the order service of a demonstration against violence against women and the attack, on December 5, of rebellious activists who were distributing leaflets asking “the closure of the fascist premises” in Old Lyon.
The ultra-right mobilized in several French cities after the semi-final of the World Cup, according to the Ministry of the Interior. In Paris, 40 people close to the ultra-right were arrested for grouping to commit violence and carrying prohibited weapons.