A brief fight broke out on Tuesday evening, January 7, between antifa activists and others from the far right, following the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen. An investigation is underway.
While around a hundred people gathered on the Place de la Comédie in Montpellier to “celebrate” the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, Tuesday January 7 in the early evening, clashes broke out on the sidelines of the procession which It was launched later in the Ecusson, between an Antifa collective and far-right activists.
At the call of left-wing associations, but also of an Antifa collective, people came to express their satisfaction with songs and slogans at seeing the founder of Front National disappear. Numbering 80 on the Place de la Comédie, there were then 200, according to the police, in the procession which traveled along rue de la Loge, rue Foch, boulevard du Jeu-de-Paume and the station square. Saint-Roch.
An ongoing investigation
If the parade took place without incident, this demonstration apparently did not please certain far-right activists who descended into the city center. This generated some clashes around the courthouse, as we can see in this video shared on the far-right Telegram channel “Ouest Casual”.
-Furtive violence, following which no complaints have been recorded to date.
A police investigation is underway.
