PARIS: France will shut down a fringe far-right youth group after the killing of a leftist student in Paris this week, France’s prime minister said yesterday, reiterating his promise to crack down on fascist groups.
The death of 19-year-old Clement Meric in a clash between ultra-right and far-left youths on Wednesday follows months of street violence from far-right groups over the legalisation of gay marriage.
The group to be shut down, the Revolutionary Nationalist Youths, is the militant wing of a broader far-right movement known as the “Third Way”. “I have asked (Interior Minister Manuel Valls) to immediately begin the procedure ... to proclaim the dissolution of the Revolutionary Nationalist Youths,” Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in a statement.
Reuters
