Overview
- Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez presented the dissolution to the Council of Ministers, which approved it on March 4.
- The Interior Ministry had opened the procedure months earlier, preceding the fatal assault on activist Quentin Deranque in Lyon.
- The government says three further dissolutions of violent groups from both the ultra-left and ultra-right are planned, with reporting naming Albi’s Patria albiges among the targets.
- At the president’s request, work has begun to dissolve five local offshoots suspected of reconstituting the already-banned Jeune Garde, which is cited in coverage related to the Lyon case.
- Officials count 25 dissolutions of ‘ultra’ groups since 2017, and intelligence services monitor just over 5,000 individuals across these movements, with more on the far right than the far left.