Far-Right Anti-Islam Rally in Paris Draws Sparse Turnout

They dreamed of making it a counterdemonstration to the rally against Islamophobia that had mobilized 13,000 people last Sunday. Only the march organized by the far right gathered between 300 and 400 activists, reports Le Parisien.

Marching on the rue de la place Denfert-Rochereau and the rue de Cambronne, the far-right demonstrators paraded against, they said, "the refusal of the political class to submit to Islamism". Many of them held portraits of perpetrators of attacks such as Amedy Coulibaly and Mohammed Merah. A way, according to "Génération identitaire", the organizing movement of the event, "to commemorate the memory of the victims".

Among the personalities who took part in this demonstration, there were Aurélien Verhassel, leader of the organization in the North region or Jean-Yves Le Gallou of the Mouvement national républicain (MNR) and former Front national.