Nupes wants a commission of inquiry to “monitor” the far right


A new commission of inquiry at the National Assembly? This Monday, the Nupes officially requested the creation of a commission of inquiry into “the fight against far-right groups in France”. The motion for a resolution, carried by the Insoumis MP Thomas Portes and co-signed by a hundred colleagues from Nupes, points to the appearance of multiple “identity and neo-Nazi” small groups in the country. “Our responsibility today is to put them under surveillance, to look at who they are, to identify them to avoid tragedies”, because of the violence of these groups, said Thomas Portes in front of the press at the Palais Bourbon.

Monitoring links with political parties

We must trace “their funding networks”, he added, also believing that these “small groups have links with the parties, both the RN and Reconquest”. Their development “is part of a context of racism and exacerbated violence in society”, he said, citing in particular the degradations which target Muslim places of worship.

The deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis judged that the government bore “a responsibility” in the situation, citing in particular the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, who according to him takes up “the elements of language of the RN” on immigration . At the Assembly, LFI has created an internal “working group” to monitor parliamentary activity and the positions taken by Marine Le Pen’s group, said Thomas Portes.

Several unmasked small groups

The LFI deputies do not plan at this stage to use their “drawing rights” for this commission of inquiry (possibility for each group to create a commission of inquiry per year), which makes its establishment hypothetical. Several plans for violent action by small ultra-right groups, targeting political figures in particular, have been thwarted in recent years.

Alleged members of the “Barjols”, a group close to the identities, were indicted between 2018 and 2022, suspected of having planned an attack against Emmanuel Macron in 2018. Members of the “Honneur et Action” group were indicted in 2021 and 2022 for “criminal terrorist association”.

In October, the Marseille criminal court sentenced members of Génération identitaire to terms of up to one year in prison, for a violent commando operation at the Marseille headquarters of SOS Méditerranée, a migrant relief NGO, in 2018.



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