Incel, Father, Ex-Soldier… Profile of Right-Wing Prisoners in France – Libération

On the eve of the anniversary of the November 13 attacks, the national anti-terrorism prosecutor, Olivier Christen, detailed on Saturday November 8 that, if jihadist movements are by far the main threat in France, far-right groups are the second potential terrorists. The judge especially kept that in mind “five procedures relating to this dispute include murder committed in Puget-sur-Argens“, in Var, opening in 2025. Faced with this threat, the Mission to combat the radicalization of violence that relies on prison administration commissioned a report from historian Nicolas Lebourg, which includes a large sample of 104 people arrested since 2017 for acts of extreme right-wing violence – terrorist or not. Conducted between 2022 and 2024, which survey Free had preview access, painting a portrait of an extreme right-wing group bathed less in structured ideology than obsessive imagination: which is called “the great replacement”.

Among these people there were 53 people “TUD”, For “ultra-right terrorists”, a police term denoting violent groups involved in planned attacks. Plus 51 activists radicals, neo-Nazis or identitarians, who target property and people on the streets. The report notes a split: the perpetrators of the action