There was the former leader of the dissolved small group the “Zouaves”, Marc de Cacqueray-Valmenier, or Gabriel Loustau, figure of the Gud… A total of 39 members of the ultra-right movement, including around twenty S files, were were arrested and placed in police custody on Saturday afternoon in Paris for “participation in a group with the aim of committing violence or damage”, AFP learned from a source close to the case.
They were arrested by Brav-M police officers around 4 p.m. at the exit of the Charonne cemetery, in the 20th arrondissement of the capital, where they had just paid tribute to the far-right writer Robert Brasillach, sentenced to died at the Liberation for acts of collaboration, said this source.
At least two of them were equipped with crutches, which could be considered weapons by destination, this source said. Some were banned from going to Paris, the source said. Before being arrested, they had also been seen near the union demonstration against the far right on Place de la République, she further clarified.