Gérald Darmanin asked for it, it is now done. The Paris Defense Union Group (GUD), as well as three other small ultra-right groups, have been officially dissolved, government spokesperson Prisca Thévenot announced this Wednesday morning during the report of the Council of Ministers.
“Proposals for the dissolution of de facto groups and associations were presented this morning (…). Dissolution of the de facto group Les Remparts and the satellite associations, La Traboule and Top Sport Rhône,” listed Prisca Thévenot, before moving on to the dissolution of GUD Paris and another association.
The spokesperson for the Remparts has already announced that the small group would contest its dissolution before the Council of State. “We are not going to let ourselves face this arbitrary decision,” declared Antoine Durand, spokesperson for the Remparts. “It will be done very quickly,” he assured.
“This ultra-right group is very friendly with many people from the National Rally”
“We have just dissolved ultra-right associations, including the GUD, and radical Islamists in the Council of Ministers,” rejoiced Gérald Darmanin on X. “Hatred of the extremes must be fought by the Republic. Thanks to the services of the Ministry of the Interior for the investigative work. »
On June 19, Gérald Darmanin announced that he was going to “propose” the dissolution of GUD Paris. “These are people who have a white supremacist ideology,” justified the Minister of the Interior, before denouncing the small group’s links with the RN. “This ultra-right group is very friendly with many people from the National Rally. They are not all, I am not talking about voters, but about leaders and those who help them like Marion Maréchal. »
Anti-Semitic, racist and violently anti-left, the GUD had never been dissolved until then and had been dormant since 2017. But some of its activists had created other small groups, including the Zouaves Paris, dissolved at the start of 2022. Six months later, the GUD reappeared, with the same activists at the helm. Lyon is one of the historic strongholds of the far right, which currently has between 300 and 400 activists, according to the authorities.
Les Remparts, a small far-right group built on the ashes of Génération Identitaire at the end of 2021, was based in Lyon. In 2022, the Macronist deputy for Rhône, Thomas Rudigoz, was preparing to ask Gérald Darmanin for his dissolution, as well as the closure of his two gathering places: the La Traboule café and the Agogé boxing gym, side by side in the tourist district of Vieux-Lyon. He won his case two years later.
