(AFP) French authorities are looking at shutting down a far-right group that has staged several attempts to block migrants from entering the country by crossing the Alps or the Pyrenees mountains, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Tuesday.
Darmanin, who has also led a recent crackdown on extremist Muslim organisations, said he was “outraged by the efforts by Generation Identitaire activists to undermine the republic.”
Last week, around 30 members of Generation Identitaire (Generation Identity) gathered at the Col du Portillon pass on the border of France and Spain in what they called a surveillance operation to “defend Europe.”
Wearing identical blue puffer jackets, they deployed a drone over the border and claimed to be combatting “the terrorist and migrant risk in the Pyrenees.”
