Marc de Cacqueray-Vallenier was arrested for violations of his judicial review. It had been indicted and placed under judicial review as a result of violence committed during the Meeting of Eric Zemmour, December, Villepinte.
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The Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin announced, Thursday, January 20, the arrest of the executive of the Ultradroite Group of the Zouaves Paris, after his participation on Saturday at a protcinational pass.
The activist, Marc de Cacqueray-Vallenier, was arrested in Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine) “as a result of violations of the obligations of his judicial review and pointing omissions at the police station of Fontainebleau”, According to a release of the bobigny parquet.
His group, founded in 2018 and dissolved on January 5 in the Council of Ministers, is particularly suspected of having taken part in the violence that enamelled the Meeting of Eric Zemmour on December 5th, in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis ) On Twitter, Mr. Darmanin then accused the group of calling “hatred and violence”.
Marc de Cacqueray-Vallenier had been indicted for “aggravated voluntary violence” and “voluntary violence in meeting” and placed under judicial review, a measure prohibiting him from participating in these gatherings.
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Among the protesters of Saturday, “there were [members] of the Zouaves, and in particular the person who is the head of the Zouaves who had made the punch at the Meeting of Mr. Zemmour,” said Mr. Darmanin on FranceInfo . “We see it with a megaphone to evoke the slogans,” added the minister.
The Zouaves are a small group that swears by the violence, heir to the Union Defense, Hooligans and the most radical fringe of French action. For the police, a “combat group” for the police.
In this same event, organized Saturday by the Patriotic Movement of Florian Philippot, two reporters of AFP Image Reporters and their two security agents, were violently taken over by a group of fifties people, identified as extreme right. AFP has filed a complaint for “Voluntary Violence in Meeting”, “death threats” and “hindrance to freedom of expression”.
m. Darmanin had asked the Paris Police Prefecture from Sunday to report to justice after the diffusion of a controversy photo taken during the parade. “Clapping” or “Hi Nazi”? On this shot, we can see a group of militants with arms outstretched, raised to the sky, which can suggest the Nazi salute.
As he was asked if he was not “went too fast”, pointing out this gathering for a “salute Nazi”, the minister had answered in the negative: “It’s pretty diverted now that we tries to have behaviors that can be described as factious. “
On the political level, he lamented Thursday “a kind of complacency vis-à-vis the far right”, believing that there was “obviously only the President of the Republic and the Government for denounce the small steps of the filthy beast “.