France Bans Generation Identity
The axe has fallen! The French government has now formally disbanded
Génération Identitaire (Generation Identity or GI). This group, founded just eight years ago, has had a global impact, inspiring sister organizations across Europe and the wider Western world.
GI popularized the very term “identitarian” and pioneered a new type of patriotic activism through spectacular publicity stunts and direct action. This included occupying government buildings and hanging pro-European banners from them, and organizing anti-illegal immigration operations at France’s borders and in the Mediterranean.
With a strong pan-European message and sleek visuals, GI became the “Greenpeace” of patriotic Europeans. It appealed to both local European identities Flemish or Breton and to the heritage of Western civilization as a whole. It used the Spartan Lambda as its logo a tribute to the warriors who stopped the Persians at Thermopylae.