French Interior Minister Considers Dissolving Far-Right Group Generation Identity

"If the elements are gathered, I will not hesitate to propose the dissolution," the minister said. He says he is "outraged by the subversive work of the Republic by the militants of Generation Identity", who organized an anti-migrant operation called "Mission Pyrenees", to track down "suspicious profiles" and "Afro-Maghrebians" at the Franco-Spanish border.

During the monthly press conference on the activity of the security forces on Tuesday, he indicated that his ministry will act "obviously within the framework of the laws and regulations of the Republic by proposing, in particular, once these elements have been gathered, the adversarial procedure due to each association," reports Paris-Normandie.

Thirty Generation Identity activists had patrolled, on Tuesday, January 19, 2021, along the Franco-Spanish border, in order to track down any migrants who might pass through there. Outraged, several elected officials from Occitania, including the socialist president of the region, Carole Delga, had called on the Ministry of the Interior to dissolve "this violent and dangerous far-right group".