Stay updated with breaking news from Generation Identity. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
PARIS (AP) — Dozens of people rallied Saturday in Paris to support the anti-migrant group Generation Identity, which is fighting for survival following a government order to dissolve it. An...
PHILIPPE LOPEZ/GettyPARIS—In the spring of 2018, about 100 activists—supported by two helicopters, a small plane, quad bikes and trucks—unfurled a large banner along France’s Alpine border with Italy that read, “No way! Back to your homeland!”Generation Identity, an anti-immigrant activist movement known for its publicity stunts, was behind the actions. Dressed in matching blue jackets to resemble police officers, the group was trying to draw attention to the mountainous crossing point for refugees—an open border under the EU’s Schengen a...
a- Some 2-3,000 Parisians, mostly young, gathered peacefully in their city’s Place Denfert Rochereau this last Saturday (February 20) to reclaim their freedom of speech, and more specifically, to support Génération Identitaire (“Generation Identity ”), the youth group currently targeted by the French government for dissolution [ France: Protesters oppose move to disband anti-migrant group, by The Associated Press, February 20, 2021]. The vocal crowd shouted slogans like “We are at home,” and among the well-known faces such as Jean-Yves Le Gallou, Florian Philippot or Jean Messiha,...
White supremacy constitutes a “trans-national” threat, the UN secretary general has warned. Antonio Guterres also said racist groups had exploited the coronavirus pandemic to boost their support. The danger was growing by the day, he told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday. He said: “White supremacy and neo-Nazi movements are more than domestic terror threats. They are becoming a transnational threat. “Today, these extremist...
At Saturday’s pro-GI rally, Florian Philippot, the president of the Patriots Party and former ally of Marine Le Pen, addressed the crowd. The group also received messages of support from a number of leading figures in Le Pen’s National Rally. Dries Van Langenhove, a controversial Belgian parliamentarian from the far-right Vlaams Belang party, also attended. Videos posted on social media of the protest show GI activists kicking and punching a counter-demonstrator on the ground. Les militants #GenerationIdentitaire ont lynché au sol un antifa. Il a pris plusieurs coups de pied au visage et...