Twenty-three activists of the far-right group dissolved in 2021 are tried in Marseille for having brutally stormed the premises of the association SOS Méditerranée, in 2018.
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For the first time since they punch operations in order to “denounce immigration and Islamization”, prison sentences were required on Monday, October 17, against members of the ‘Old far right group generation identity that was dissolved in 2021 by decision of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin. But it is in front of a bench of defendants deserted by all twenty-three activists-twenty-two are tried for voluntary violence in meeting, the twenty-third defendants, a young woman, for having recorded and broadcast images- that the prosecutor Ahmed Chafai pronounced his indictment before the Marseille Criminal Court.
Since the opening of this trial, on October 10, only eleven defendants have appeared, very episodically, leaving immediately after their visit to the bar. Twelve others were represented by their lawyers, including Anne-Thaïs du Tertre, a former spokesperson for identity generation, who made the choice to express himself on the antenna of a radio rather than in court to “claim [their] innocence “.
m. Chafai demanded the heaviest sentence, a year in prison, against Romain Espino, 29, former spokesperson for identity generation, described as “the principal” of the assault, on October 5, 2018, from the Headquarters of SOS Méditerranée, a European association for the sea rescue of migrants rallying Europe aboard makeshift boats. Using a subterfuge, the “commando” had burst into the Marseille premises of the association to hang a banner in the windows after having brutally out the seven employees present.
“Ni ni Compassion or regrets “
A six-month firm imprisonment was required against eight other defendants, a sentence justified by a previous conviction or due to the non-compliance with their judicial control. Six of them had, in fact, participated, in March 2019, in the occupation of the roof of the Bobigny family allowance fund, where they had deployed a banner “money for the French not for foreigners “. This action carried out while the Marseille investigating judge Karim Badène had indicted and placed under judicial supervision, a few months earlier, “demonstrates, according to the prosecutor, the contempt, the I-in-fourtism displayed at the ‘regard for justice “. Sentences ranging from six months suspended prison sentence to one year of which eight months suspended were claimed against the fourteen other defendants.
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