The phenomenon is not really one, according to her. The executive vice-president of Reconquest!, Marion Maréchal, sweeps away this Friday the threat coming from the ultra-right in France, considering it "ridiculous".
"I think that the only threat that continues to exist in this country structurally and statistically is far-left violence," the former MP said on BFMTV.
Ultra-right in Annecy: Marion Maréchal evokes "shocking images", but refuses to make them "a great phenomenon"https://t.co/DSaaf4dSgy pic.twitter.com/EYlbPn5TEW
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'Unpleasant images'
The niece of Marine Le Pen, who joined Eric Zemmour's party in 2022, also spoke of "an attempt to divert the subjects" by the government. On May 9, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin issued a circular to prefects to ban several "ultra-right demonstrations and rallies."
The investigation was given in response to the controversy sparked by a demonstration organized in Paris three days earlier. Activists, often masked, had displayed flags marked with the Celtic cross. And on Tuesday, an undeclared nightly nationalist parade took place in Annecy, with some hooded protesters, chanting far-right slogans.
"Unpleasant images," said Marion Maréchal, who immediately tried to minimize the phenomenon. "We are talking about forty people who marched for about thirty minutes." "There will be an investigation because the demonstration has not been authorized, so justice will take its course."
- Politics
- Marion Maréchal-Le Pen
- Ultra-right
- Violence