Retailleau praises a nationalist movement advocating “remigration”

A video in which the Minister of the Interior congratulates the far-right identity collective Némésis has been circulating in recent days, sparking indignation among certain opponents. Context elements.

“Nemesis, I would like to congratulate the young ladies that I saw, there you go. Bravo for your fight, you know that I am very close to it.” These remarks were made by the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, Tuesday January 21. The tenant of Beauvau was then the guest of the center for reflection on internal security, founded by the French lawyer specializing, among other things, in the defense of internal security forces (police, gendarmerie, army) and the defense of victims of terrorist acts, Thibault de Montbrial.

Launched in 2019, shortly after the start of the #MeToo movement, which encourages women to denounce the rapes and sexual assaults of which they are victims, the Némésis collective is a far-right identity action group claiming to be feminist. He has stood out in recent years for his racist, anti-Islam, anti-immigration and anti-transidentity positions. Némésis is particularly known for denouncing cases of sexual violence committed by immigrants.

“He was referring to what she had just said.”

While the activists of the Némésis collective have been the subject of several complaints, including one filed by the mayor of Lille, Martine Aubry, for “incitement to racial hatred” following the deployment of anti-immigration banners, the rebellious MP Clémence Guetté did not fail to denounce Bruno Retailleau’s comments. “I don’t think the minister knows the leader of Némésis, Alice Cordier, and I’m not sure he knows exactly what Némésis is. He’s more interested in the DZ Mafia,” he tried to evacuate the entourage of Bruno Retailleau, questioned by BFMTV on this sequence which is disturbing to say the least. Before recalling the context of the statement made by Bruno Retailleau: “He was simply responding to a question on the dissolution of the La Jeune Garde collective and on the figures for anti-Semitism. When he salutes the fights of Alice Cordier, he was referring what she had just said.” The Minister of the Interior would have in fact mentioned the possible future dissolution of the far-left collective, La Jeune garde antifasciste.