Twenty-two members of the far-right group attacked, in 2018, the premises of SOS Méditerranée, the Migrant Sea Rescue Association.
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They said they wanted to “preserve French and European traditions”, “promote [their] identity by fighting against Islamization, immigration, insecurity”: twenty-three identity activists are tried from Monday October 10 for the assault on the premises of SOS Méditerranée, the Migrants Rescue Association Embedded on makeshift boats.
On October 5, 2018, on the eve of a European demonstration to claim a pavilion for the Aquarius -the SOS Méditerranée boat which, in three years, will have rescued 30,000 people -, twenty -two activists of the group D ‘extreme right burst into the association’s premises, in the center of Marseille. They hang on the windows a banner of ten by five meters: “SOS Mediterranean accomplice of human trafficking! Generation identity” and light smoke bombs. An action in commando mode as the extreme right group has already carried out: the site of a mosque in Poitiers in 2012, the headquarters of the Socialist Party on rue de Solférino, in Paris, in 2013, the occupation of the roof of the Bobigny family allowance fund in 2019, “antimigrant dams” erected in the Alps and the Pyrenees in 2018 and 2021. The operation is filmed, intended for the far -right media.
nineteen boys and three girls, at the time aged 18 to 33, from all over France, were tried for “voluntary violence in meeting and participation in a group in order to commit them”, which Incredible them five years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros. The twenty-third defendant, Anaïs Renon alias Lignier, at the time spokesperson for generation of identity, appears for the dissemination of images of this aggression. In Marseille, at the foot of the association’s building, she pretended to be an independent journalist in order to film the action. 2> “Pacific Happening”
In Indian line, silent on the stairs, the attackers had waited for the opening of the association’s door to which one of theirs had sounded, pretending to want to become a volunteer. The invective “human traffickers, it will go wrong for you” is launched during the group’s emergence, equipped with GoPro cameras and brandishing cameras on selfie poles. Brutalized, belted, grabbed, the seven employees of SOS Mediterranean present came out of force. Civil parties in this trial, they should testify to the fear that was theirs. “We were attacked and we did not know what they wanted. With the threats of terrorist attacks, we thought of a thousand things,” said an employee.
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