The ultra-right group the Zouaves Paris, suspected in particular of being involved in the violence committed during the meeting of Eric Zemmour in Villepinte in December, was dissolved Wednesday in the Council of Ministers, announced the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin .
According to the dissolution decree, this informal group, which appeared in 2017 and brings together around twenty members, is accused of being “at the origin of numerous and recurring violent acts” and of “propagating an openly racist discourse”, broadcasting “regularly images showing the symbols of Nazi ideology ”.
An heir to the GUD, the Social Bastion and Generation Identity
The publications of this rally fan of lightning actions like the “hooligans” defend “the concept of superiority of” whites “”, according to the decree. The small group, nicknamed the ZVP, was born from the gathering of former members of the Union Defense Group (GUD), of the Social Bastion and of Generation Identity, both dissolved.
Still according to the decree, the Zouaves Paris “promote violent behavior against homosexuals and transsexuals through their publications”.
Suspected of being involved in the violence which targeted SOS Racisme activists during Eric Zemmour’s electoral meeting in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis) last month, the alleged leader of the group, Marc de Cacqueray-Valmenier, was indicted for willful violence in mid-December.
On December 5, in the middle of the speech of the far-right presidential candidate, several SOS Racisme activists who had exhibited “No to racism” T-shirts were the victims of punches and throwing of chairs by supporters of the speaker.
Before this action, the ZVP had participated in the demonstration of December 1, 2018 of “yellow vests”, the most violent and marked by the sacking of the Arc de Triomphe.
For his “participation in a group with a view to committing degradation” during this, Marc de Cacqueray-Valmenier was sentenced to six months suspended prison sentence with 105 hours of community service (TIG).
The ZVP also claimed responsibility for the attack with baseball bats and tear gas aerosols on the Saint-Sauveur bar, an emblematic place of the anti-fascist movement in the Ménilmontant district in Paris.