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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.
#civitas #france #farright #catholic #integralism #monarchism
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French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has initiated the process of banning integralist (read: Catholic fascist) group Civitas in response to a video that the group presented at its “summer university”. The video showed conspiracy theorist Pierre Hillard arguing that French citizenship for Jews should be revoked. Specifically, he claimed that Jews have “opened the doors to immigration” since their naturalization in 1791 and that “it may be necessary to return to pre-1789 conditions”, thus invoking “great replacement” theory, “classical” reactionary thinking, and the most fundamental antisemitic conspiracy theories all at once. (Of note: the Pittsburgh synagogue mass murderer who was just sentenced to death this week also took action based on the assumption that a) immigration is inherently bad and b) Jews are responsible for it.)
Civitas was formed in 1999. In 2016, it became eligible to receive government funding as a political party and, more recently, it made headlines in France for things like shutting down an organ recital in a church in May, claiming that the composer/organist had written sacreligious music. It has also engaged in protests against shelters for asylum seekers and supported the presidential campaign of fascist Eric Zemmour in 2022.
Darmanin also disbanded Génération Identitaire a few years ago, which is basically nice, but he’s generally an authoritarian asshole who has also banned environmental groups and led the draconian efforts by French police to quell the recent uprising after police officers murdered Nahel Merzouk. It’s almost like the state repressive apparatus isn’t actually a reliable ally. 🤷♂️
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Gérald Darmanin engage la dissolution de l’organisation catholique intégriste Civitas https://www.liberation.fr/politique/gerald-darmanin-engage-la-dissolution-de-lorganisation-civitas-20230807_M2RBYFHKUVEYVMMYJS6VU6UDXI/
#civitas #integralism #darmanin #france #zemmour #fascism #antisemitism
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Dreher is far too charitable to them, but I'll restrain myself from another tirade about their sinister totalitarianism; the facts speak for themselves.
And to any integralists whose theology highly values individual liberty, I'm not talking about you. You're fine by me.Image is "The Angel with the Flaming Sword" by Edwin Howland Blashfield.
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