The Human Rights League will file two complaints against the phenomenon “Ausländer Raus” – foreigners out”. These racist songs were chanted in particular in the middle of the rue d’Albi (Tarn) during the music festival. another party is organized in Rouen (Seine-Maritime).
The Human Rights League files a complaint after racist chants were chanted in the heart of Albi on the evening of the music festival. “The LDH will bring two complaints at national level against the phenomenon “Ausländer Raus“(foreigners out), confirms Paul Collin, the president of the Tarn section of the LDH. A complaint in Albi for the racist chants of Friday June 21 and a complaint in Rouen for an evening organized in a bar Friday June 28, 2024. “We are filing a complaint because we are in a campaign against the far-right and its demonstrations opposed to democracy and with racist and Nazi overtones”worries the president of the LDH.
“In recent days, we have seen intolerable and uninhibited racist remarks rising across the whole of France. These individuals sing in the streets or during demonstrations in German, reminiscent of dark times. This strategy of the extreme right is based on fear in tagging swastikas, for example, on the Castres PS premises.”
Paul Collin, president of the Tarn section of the LDH
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These complaints come after questioning by the union of the General Confederation of Workers (CGT) on this event in Albi. “We had CGT activists who witnessed the scene and who were deeply shocked”explains Laure Malleviale, departmental secretary of CGT 81.
Among them, Jean, retired. This Albigensian was on rue Mariès the evening of the music festival when the “singers” passed in front of him. “It was around 11:30 p.m. to 11:45 p.m. I was listening to my guitar teacher playing in front of the tobacco shop located on this street when we heard and saw around fifteen young men rushing down it from the prefecture to the cathedral at a rapid pace I didn’t understand the words or the song very well at the time, but it was impressive. There were about fifteen young men walking very close together, I think some had their fists raised. .”
According to Jean, they filmed for a few minutes in the city center. “I heard them singing in other streets without seeing them.” It was only a few days later that he understood the meaning of the German words, as reported by France 3 Occitanie.
Uninhibited behavior in the heart of Albi, a few days before the first round of the legislative elections, where far-right supporters are not at their first provocation. “We are all the more concerned that among the group that sang “Foreigners Out”, we recognized a member of Patria Albiges who was sentenced to 8 months in prison, suspended, for having attacked two student members of the CGT”, recalls the departmental secretary of CGT 81.
Concern is also affecting the young rebellious people of Tarn who relay the video in a tweet on
“Faced with disturbances to public order, repeated violence, convictions, what is the prefect waiting for to act? A tragedy?” they throw
Patria Albigès, a small local identity group, led by the son of RN deputy Frédéric Cabroliercandidate for re-election in the 1st constituency of Tarn, has been talked about in recent months after in particular the conviction of three of its activists for public incitement to hatred.
According to our information, Lyon supporters belonging to La Mezza Lyon, a group of neo-Nazi hooligans, were also present.
