OAS. The acronym comes from another age, the ideas are very current. Six young members of the small group Organization of Social Armies, obviously inspired by its older history of the Algerian war, appeared on Tuesday, September 21, before the Paris Criminal Court for “criminal terrorist association” and also, for two d ‘between them, “Apology for terrorism” and ” flight “ of a vehicle. Three other members of the group, minors at the time of the facts, are tried separately.
According to the prosecution, the small group, dismantled in two stages, in June and then in October 2017, intended “To prepare combatants physically, psychologically and materially (…) in the prospect of an imminent racial war “.
Start a “remigration”
The aim of the young men was to initiate a “Remigration” by using terror against Muslims, Arabs and Africans, by attacking restaurants, places of worship, mosques or synagogues, and the flea market in Marseille. Migrants and drug dealers were also targeted. Just like political figures: Christophe Castaner, then government spokesperson, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, head of La France insoumise (LFI).
The trial of this neo-OAS was all the more expected since it is the first to illustrate the rise of an ultra-right wing eager to do battle and ready to take the plunge into violence. In addition to the case judged this week in Paris, five other cases are being investigated at the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT).
The defendants, who face up to ten years in prison, are all young, white and poor. Five appear free. Only the self-proclaimed leader and founder of the OAS, Logan Nisin, remains in pre-trial detention. For four years and almost three months, all his requests for release have been rejected because of his – already long – journey within the extreme right: he had neo-Nazi sympathies at 13, then campaigned for the Youth nationalists at the age of 16, which he left for the Popular Movement for a New Dawn (MPNA), inspired by Golden Dawn (neo-Nazi party) in Greece, before joining Action française “Because it was the strongest group in the Bouches-du-Rhône region”, and at the same time to participate in the founding of France Village (“A nationalist eco-village experience”), then to Marine Le Pen’s campaign. Aged 21 at the time of his arrest, Logan Nisin was already listed “S”. Disappointed by organizations where we talk a lot without doing much, he decided to found his own after the attacks of November 13, 2015: ” the trigger “, he said.
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