39 right-wing extremists were arrested in Paris on suspicion of violence or damage on Saturday February 10th, and were still in custody as of midday on Sunday, the public prosecutor’s office told AFP. The individuals are being questioned for “participation in a group with a view to causing damage” according to a close source to the investigation, confirmed by the public prosecutor and cited by the press agency. The arrested individuals are all adults, with the exception of two minors. The oldest was born in May 1995 and the two youngest in October 2006, the prosecutor’s office told AFP. Around twenty of them are registered in the S file, and among them are some known far-right personalities, including the former leader of the dissolved group “Les Zouaves”, Marc de Cacqueray-Valmenier, and Gabriel Loustau, a figure of the Gud. The 39 men were apprehended by Brav-M officers around 4 p.m. on Saturday at the exit of the Charonne cemetery in the 20th district of Paris, where they had just paid tribute to the collaborationist figure Robert Brasillach.
