Dozens of people protested in Paris on Saturday against the dissolution of a far-right anti-immigrant group, Generation Identity. The Lyon-based group has been at the centre of a number of controversies, including a 2017 “Defend Europe” mission on the Mediterranean Sea in which it chartered an “anti-migrant ship”. The group has been through several legal battles, and now the French Interior Minister, Gerald Darmanin, is working to ban it. The Interior Ministry cited France’s security code forbidding “combat or private militia groups” and groups that “provoke discrimination, hate or (racial) violence,” according to French daily newspaper Liberation, which saw a copy of the government's seven-page justification.