Violence at Meeting of Eric Zemmour: alleged leader of Zouaves Paris arrested

Marc de CacQueray-Vallenier was arrested by the research and intervention brigade of the police prefecture.

Le Monde with AFP

The alleged leader of the group of Ultradroite the Zouaves Paris, suspected of being involved in the violence during the meeting of the Far right candidate at the presidential Eric Zemmour, on December 5, in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis ), was arrested on Tuesday, December 14, said a police source, confirming information from FranceInfo.

Marc de Cacqueray-Vallenier was arrested by the research and intervention brigade of the police prefecture. It had been identified by several media on the videos showing the aggression with punches and chairs of SOS racism activists who had exhibited t-shirts with the registration “not to racism” during the first campaign meeting of the candidate far right.

Committed dissolution procedure

The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced Sunday that he had initiated the dissolution procedure of the Zouaves, group of ultradroite. “I hired the dissolution procedure of this fact that are the Zouaves, which is a group of people who comes either the GUD [former extreme right-wing union] or French action, that is to -Dire of well-known ultradroite movements, “he said to the” Grand Jury RTL-LCI-Le Figaro “

The group has also been implicated in violence committed during the manifestations of “yellow vests” the 1 December 2018 in Paris and in the attack of a bar of the anti-phase movement in the Ménilmontant district in June 2020.

/Media reports.