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The French government is now officially dissolving the far-right Catholic group Civitas, as requested by the minister of the interior in August.
Civitas was founded in 1999 and became a political party in 2016. In 2017, it ran a former National Front politician who had been suspended after a photo came out showing him giving a Nazi salute in front of a Nazi flag. (I swear, these people just can't resist.)
Among the reasons cited for the ban, a government spokesman pointed to assemblies in honor of Vichy collaborators, calls for war on the French republic, and antisemitic and Islamophobic discourse.
The immediate cause for the interior minister's request was antisemitic comments by a member who was quoted at a forum during Civitas' "summer school" as saying "naturalizing the Jews in 1791 opened the door to immigration" and that "maybe we need to go back to the situation before 1789", which earned him a round of applause.
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