The alvarium presents itself as a leading “social action for those that the state prefers to ignore”, but the Minister of the Interior sees it more as “a fact of fact of ultradroite”.
Le Monde with AFP
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced Thursday, October 29, on Twitter , have launched a “procedure” against an association located in Angers, the Alvarium, “for its dissolution”, presenting it as “an ultradroite factor” .
“I committed this day a contradictory procedure against an ultradroite group, the Alvarium, located in Angers, with a view to its dissolution,” said the Minister of the Inside, adding that the “many facts observed, the repeated reports of many elected officials, including the Mayor of Angers [Christophe Béchu], motivate this action”.
On its website, the Alvarium (the hive, in Latin) presents itself as a “community and a convivial meeting place” leading to “social action in the service of those that the state prefers ignore”. “Our association is resolutely identity, it promotes angevin culture, component of the French and European civilization”, is it written on the site which lists the “initiatives”: “defense of heritage and rediscovery of our local culture”; “Weekly distributions of clothing and food”; “Community initiatives (vegetable, good plans, jobs)” or “political activism for the awakening of consciences”.
Inside the room opened since January 2018 to the “nationalists” and in which a journalist from the world had gone in May 2018, some books aligned with a library gave the tone: the former president of the National Front ( Fn), Jean-Marie Le Pen, rubbed himself the openly anti-Semite writer and fervent collaborator with the occupant Nazi Robert Brasillach, or Alain Soral, essayist of extreme right, definitely sentenced on October 27 for dispute of the existence of the existence of The shoah.
“MENONGERS ‘POWERS”
In May 2021, about fifteen activists of the association had become physically made to five people, one of whom had affixed a sticker on the Alvarium door. contacted by release , the former activist FN Jean-Eudes Gannat, the head of the association, said “assume” but then refuted any aggression, preferring to speak of ‘a “muscular reaction of the team of custody activists” against “antifas that harass the alvarium and degrade the premises”.
After the announcement of the launch of the procedure for the dissolution of the Alvarium, Jean-Eudes Gannat denounces a political act at the microphone of RCF radio :” M. Darmanin sees the elections approaching And unable to fight against Islamism and seeing the rise of our ideas, especially by Eric Zemmour, he tries to light the counterflows “, before adding:
“We will fight by all means. We will challenge this dissolution that is based on patterns, many of which are fallacious or even falsely.”
For his part, the Maine-et-Loire Ecologist Matthieu Orphan (formerly the Republic) welcomed Mr. Darmanin’s initiative. “The many actions, threats and repetitive facts of violence and aggression, committed by the members of this Angevine association, go against the principles of respect for others, democracy and ideas debates”, ” a href=”https://twitter.com/m_orphelin/status/1453972678268829696″ target = “_ blank” rel = “Noopener” title = “new window”> writes it on Twitter
“The substantive elements” will be communicated “at the end” of the contradictory proceedings, said the France-Presse Agency the entourage of the Minister of the Interior.