The government announced on Wednesday June 3 its intention to dissolve two new groups, one ultra-right, the other ultra-left.
The Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, proposed to the President of the Republic, on the occasion of the Council of Ministers, “the dissolution of two groups”, the first being an “ultra-right identity group” called Patria Albiges, and the other an “ultra-left group” called Front de rue, declared the spokesperson of the government, Maud Bregeon, to the press at the end of the meeting in the Élysée.
Patria Albiges presents itself as an Albigensian identity youth movement, which aims to be a “political actor to alert the population to current events and social phenomena such as immigration, insecurity, wokism or Islamism”.
Eleven far-right activists close to this small group were recently sentenced to four to eight months in prison, suspended for 10 of them, for having taken part in a punitive expedition against an anti-fascist activist in 2025.
Aged 19 to 29, they went to Albi (Tarn) in April 2025, hooded, armed in particular with telescopic batons and brass knuckles, with “a threatening and vengeful attitude” to attack an anti-fascist activist. The spokesperson for Patria Albiges was sentenced in 2023 to eight months in prison for having hit two young Tarnais people.
Around fifty dissolutions already pronounced
Front de Rue is an anti-fascist group based in the North, particularly in Lille. In February, after the death of ultra-right activist Quentin Deranque, President Emmanuel Macron brought together government officials to focus on the fight against “violent ultra or extreme groups”.
At the end of this meeting, several groups, two from the ultra-right (the Bloc Montpellier and Patria Albiges) and one from the ultra-left, were targeted by a dissolution procedure launched by the Ministry of the Interior.
Since 2017, around fifty groups, including La Jeune Garde and Lyon populaire, have been the subject of dissolution decrees by the Council of Ministers. But some, like Les Soulèves de la Terre, filed an appeal with the Council of State, which they won.
