Brown hours. The procession was mainly composed of young men, short hair, dressed in dark, masked faces. In quick step, punctuated by military songs, they paraded, Tuesday evening, in the streets of Annecy. Tricolor flag or emblazoned with the Savoy cross in one hand, torch in the other. Here is what we can see in this video, posted on Twitter by the “Syndicat des Florists”, self-proclaimed “group of French patriots”. We also hear, against a background of dramatic music, these men shout “France to the French”. An unauthorized demonstration which returns a “nauseating image” denounced a municipal councilor to our colleagues from France news.
“In KuKluxKlan mode”
After they marched through the streets of Annecy, without asking permission and without being worried by the police, the members of the “Florists’ Union” quietly published on Twitter the montage of their demonstration . “This is where Darmanin’s permissiveness leads to the violent far-right gangs who cheer him on. From city to city, it is spreading, ”reacted on the same platform, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The boss of LFI also commented on the tweet of Raphaël Arnault, “spokesperson for the Young Anti-Fascist Guard”, which paraded in Annecy “in KuKluxKlan mode”.
With our colleagues from France Blue, Fabienne Grébert, regional councilor and president of the ecologists in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, declared: “this demonstration sends shivers down my spine in my city”, adding that such a parade had “a scent of 1934”. A “nauseating image” for the opposition municipal councilor in Annecy, Antoine Barnwho declared on Twitter: “Appropriating the tricolor flag and that of Savoy, they parade hooded in a heavy silence in the country of the Allobroges, whose anthem nevertheless consecrates this land as a land of asylum and safety” .