The trial of the staff of the skinhead group Blood and Honor Hexagon (BHH), an ultra-right group dissolved in 2019 for its racist and anti-Semitic neo-Nazi ideology, opened on Monday before the Marseille Criminal Court. They are on trial until Wednesday for “participation in a combat group“.
Tattoos on the neck and skull, Loïc Delboy, 41, founder-leader of the group, and David Dumas, 51, treasurer of Hexa Prods, the association serving as a legal showcase for BHH, took their place on the bench of warned. A third, Pierre Scarano dit Pierrot-le-fou, secretary of Hexa Prods, announced his presence on Tuesday.
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A fourth, Jérémy Recagno, tattoo artist in Aubagne, sympathizer of BHH, was represented. “He is afraid of reprisals“, indicated his lawyer Me Yassine Maharsi at the opening of the proceedings.
Four other defendants are tried solely for offenses against the legislation on weapons, unrelated to the small group.
The investigation began in 2014 on anonymous information about the attack on a bank ATM destroyed by explosives, the C4 which was allegedly taken out of the Toulon arsenal by a marine. And in 2015, investigators began to take an interest in Jérémy Recagno.
Beyond acquaintances with local robbers who earned him serious death threats, this former skinhead led the gendarmes to Blood and Honor Hexagon.
This small group, dissolved in 2019 by the Council of Ministers in response to an upsurge in anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim acts in France, brought together around twenty people. In some, the investigators found objects, bladed weapons and clothing to the glory of the 3rd Reich.
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They organized four major events a year, including the “White Christmasand the Ian Stuart Donaldson, in memory of the English founder of this movement whose name takes up the motto of the Hitler Youth: Blood and Honour.
The concerts they put on in the Lyon region could bring together up to 400 people. At the exit of one of them in 2016, in the village hall of Torcheflon (Isère), out of 363 people checked by the gendarmes, 68 were on file “State Security», members of the radical ultra-right.
In Loïc Delboy’s computer was also found a speech dating from 2013 calling “to reclaim the land of our ancestors and not to abandon it to the dogs of Israel and the sons of Allah“. The members of BHH dispute any belonging to a combat group, claiming to be only an identity music label.