France to Ban Extreme Right Revolutionary Nationalist Youth Group
France is to take steps to ban an extreme right wing group after a student died following an altercation in a Paris street last Wednesday evening with a group believed to have neo-nazi links.
Following the death of an 18-year-old student who was allegedly set upon by five assailants on a Paris street on Wednesday evening, France’s Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has asked the French interior minister to take immediate steps to dissolve the extreme right group known as Revolutionary Nationalist Youth or Jeunesses nationalistes révolutionnaires (JNR) in French.
Left wing activist Clément Méric was involved in a clash with a group of far right supporters after emerging from a Paris shop last Wednesday. Méric later died from injuries sustained. Following Méric’s death, five people were arrested and are currently under investigation by the Paris Prosecutor’s office. The attack, said to involve two small groups of left wing and right wing sympathisers took place in full public view in a busy shopping street close to the St. Lazare train station in Paris.
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