This informal group, appeared in 2017 and gathering about twenty members, is suspected of being involved in the violent acts that broke out during the Meeting of Eric Zemmour in December.
Le Monde with AFP
The group of ultradroite the Zouaves Paris, particularly suspected of being involved in the violence that enamelled the Meeting of Eric Zemmour last December, was dissolved, Wednesday, January 5, in the Council of Ministers, announced the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin. On Twitter, Mr. Darmanin accused the group to call “hatred and violence”.
According to the decree of dissolution, this informal group, appeared in 2017 and gathering about twenty members, is accused of being “at the origin of many recurring violent acts” and to “spread an openly racist speech,”, broadcast “regularly images resuming the symbols of Nazi ideology”.
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The publications of this follower of flash actions in the image of “hooligans” defend “the concept of superiority of” whites “, according to the decree. And the Paris Zouaves “valorize the violent behaviors against homosexuals and transsexuals”.
The alleged leader condemned several times
Suspected to be involved in the violence that targeted SOS racism activists at the Eric Zemmour Electoral Meeting in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis) on December 5, 2021, the presumed leader of the group, Marc de Cacqueray-Vallenier, was indicted for voluntary violence in mid-December. In the face of the candidate of the extreme right to the presidential election, several activists of SOS racism that had exhibited “non-racism” t-shirts had been victims of punches and chair jets by supporters of the speaker.
The group was born from the gathering of former members of the Union Defense (GUD), social bastion and identity generation, the latter being dissolved. Before the meeting of Mr. Zemmour, the members of the group, nicknamed the ZVPs, had participated in the demonstration of the December 2018 “yellow vests”, the most violent and marked by the rampage of the ‘Triumphal arch. For its “participation in a group in order to commit degradations” at this one, Marc de Cacqueray-Vallenier had been sentenced to six months of suspended prison with 105 hours of work of general interest (TIG).
The ZVPs also claimed the attack with baseball beats and tear gas aerosols of the bar The Saint-Sauveur, an emblematic place of the anti-phase movement in the district of Ménilmontant in Paris.