Right-wing political association “Génération Identitaire” – the movement of identityists – will be outlawed in France. This is reported by the newspaper L’Express.
On February 13, the authorities began a legal procedure that would lead to a ban on the movement, but the media drew attention to this a little later.
Representatives of identityarists call themselves patriots and supporters of a collective national identity. They repeatedly opposed uncontrolled migration and even went to the border of the country, to the Pyrenees, trying to resist the flow of illegal migrants.
Identarists motivated this by a desire to help police officers in the fight against the threat of terrorism, but they were repeatedly accused of inciting racial hatred and xenophobia. The group is likely to be destroyed in 2021.
As noted by L’Express, they were previously supported by right-wing politicians, including the presidential candidate from the National Front party Marine Le Pen. The French authorities have put pressure on nationalist movements in the past, but these, as a rule, were smaller and more radical associations, such as “Blood and Honor” or “Combat 18”.