Seven members of the ultra-right are judged, this Saturday in immediate appearance, following the violence recorded in Paris following the semi-final match of the 2022 World Cup, having opposed Morocco to France (0-2). These individuals are among 38 people arrested on the evening of the meeting, December 14. Until this morning, 26 of them have been in custody.
Leader of the Zouaves Paris, a small group dissolved in the Council of Ministers and already known to justice, Marc de Cacqueray-Valmenier is one of those called to the bar. He is “indicted for violence once morest activists of SOS Racisme during a meeting of Eric Zemmour in Villepinte, on December 5, 2021 and has already been sentenced to one year in prison for the attack on a bar. Parisian anti-fascist, in June 2020”, reported France info.
Quoting the Paris public prosecutor’s office, the media also reports that six reminders to the law with a ban on appearing in Paris or an obligation to carry out a citizenship course have been formulated, as well as a criminal composition, which allows the prosecutor to “propose one or more penalties to a person who has committed certain offences”. Also, twelve classifications without follow-up “for lack of sufficiently serious offense” were pronounced.
The arrests were made at the level of the 17th arrondissement of Paris. Some of the individuals were arrested holding “weapons or weapons by destination, such as brass knuckles or adjustable wrenches”. They are suspected of having wanted to “do battle with the Moroccan supporters on the Champs-Elysées”, according to a police source, quoted by Franceinfo.
Last Thursdaythe French Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin asked for a “specific follow-up” of the ultra-right groups which would count “breaking the Arab”, this weekend, on the sidelines of the matches of the World Cup held at this time in Qatar and followed by different communities in France.
Special measures have also been ordered, in anticipation of the Morocco-Croatia classification match this Saturday, as well as the France-Argentina final on Sunday. The French authorities are also investigating whether the actions of the ultra-right were coordinated at the national level.
