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France moves to ban far-right party for 'antisemitism'

Civitas claims to have over 165,000 members across the country

August 8, 2023 09:10
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France is moving to ban a far-right party of mostly ultra-traditional Catholics, because of its antisemitism.

France's interior minister said he had ordered his department to dissolve Civitas.

Gerald Darmanin said he had asked the ministry "to proceed to the dissolution" of the party, "firmly" condemning antisemitic remarks made during its summer seminar last month.

At a meeting on July 30, controversial author Pierre Hillard told his audience that, before the French Revolution of 1789, Jews and other religious minorities could not become French citizens because they were "heretics".