The association “feeds an assumed hatred speech” and “encouraging discrimination or violence against persons because of their origin or religion”, specifies the decree of dissolution.
The group of ultradroite the alvarium, known for violent actions in Angers and “calling for violence and discrimination”, was dissolved, Wednesday, November 17, in the Council of Ministers, announced the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
According to the decree of dissolution, the association, involved “in facts of violence”, propagates in particular “since 2018 a speech and ideas assimilating immigration and Islam to threats that the French must fight”. “The Alvarium feeds an assumed hatred speech” and “encouraging discrimination or violence against people because of their origin or religion”, specifies the decree.
The Government spokesperson, Gabriel Attal, commented at the end of the Council of Ministers:
“Our hand does not tremble in the face of racism and violence and we show it once again with this decision.”
Violence in meeting and flag flights
In recent months, several regulars in the Alvarium have been sentenced according to the advocacy procedure by the Correctional Court of Angers for meeting in meeting and flag flights.
Created in January 2018, the association, which is defined as “a Community Center for Social and Cultural Actions in Anjou”, had illegally occupied a vacant building in 2020 on the facade of which were hooked the banners ” France to the French “and” Housing: Let’s apply the national preference “.
Interviewed by the France-Presse agency, Jean-Eudes Gannat, the spokesman and co-founder of the Alvarium, mentioned attacks committed on the French soil before adding:
“The only reaction of the Minister of the Interior is to dissolve the Alvarium. (…) France goes to his loss and everything will pay one day.”
According to Jean-Yves Camus, a political scientist specializing in the far right, the association, which is called “at the confluence of nationalist doctrines and social Catholicism”, “is best known for the regular skirmishes around its local, which opposes the core of identity activists Angevins to local antifascists “.