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Tuesday, December 14, 2021
French far-right leader arrested over fighting at Zemmour rally
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe leader of France’s far-right Zouaves group has been arrested over violence that broke out at a rally for French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, AFP reports, citing a police source.
Last week, a brawl between Zouaves partisans and an anti-racism group SOS Racisme broke out a rally for Zemmour, a child of Algerian Jews who is running on an anti-immigration platform and has two convictions for hate speech. He was injured during the fighting.
Shortly after Zemmour started speaking at the December 6 rally, fighting broke out and chairs were thrown at activists who stood up with “No to Racism” written on their T-shirts.
The country’s interior minister said Sunday he was seeking to have the Zouaves disbanded.
Meeting de #Zemmour. Partis vaillants, à l'arrivé, plus personne. #zouaves
Villepinte RER B direction Gare du Nord, après ça plus un bruit. Pourtant à chaque arrêt c'était que des noirs qui montaient. Leurs slogans étaient dans leurs têtes, plus dans leur bouche. pic.twitter.com/JI0VOL03bq— Frederic Munsch (@frederic_munsch) December 11, 2021
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