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Every year, the “May 9 Committee”, an ultra-right collective, gathers to pay tribute to one of their own, who died in 1994.
An annual ultra-right demonstration planned for May 11 in Paris has been banned by the police headquarters, the latter told AFP on Tuesday. A “total ban order has been issued,” said the police headquarters.
This demonstration of the “Committee of May 9” takes place every year to commemorate the anniversary of the death of a far-right activist, Sébastien Deyzieu, who died accidentally in 1994. The young man had taken refuge on the roof from a Paris building to escape the police before falling to his death. But what does this collective really represent?
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A collective of several ultra-right movements
It is above all an informal group made up of several far-right movements. We owe its birth to several parties and movements from the right who came together on May 9, 1994, two days after the death of Sébastien Deyzieu, to honor his memory, reports BFMTV.
Since then, its activists have demonstrated every year around May 7 in Paris, targeting the street where the young man died. Today, the “Committee” is above all an emanation of the Union Defense Group (GUD), an ultra-right organization founded by law students in Assas in 1968, which became active again in the early 2010s.
