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France: Four arrested

01 July 1996

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After six years of confused investigations, conflicts between police and judicial authorities in charge of the case, four neo-nazis who are suspected of desecrating the Jewish cemetery in Carpentras (south France) on 10 May 1990 were arrested on 31 July. The suspects are skinheads who are associated with the extreme-right Parti Nationaliste Francais et Europeen (PNFE). Yannick Garnier, 26, has admitted the offence and named his accomplices as Patrick Leonegro, 31, Bertrand Nouveau, 27, Olivier Fimbry, 27. The group has been known to the police for several years for its membership in the neo-nazi movement. The presumed head of the group, Jean-Claude Gros, died in an accident in 1992. He was questioned by the police the day after the desecration as well as Laonegro, Gos and Fimbry but all were released because of lack of evidence. That they also happened to be the sons of local notables only adds to the embarrassment in Carpentras. Le Monde, 2.8.1996; Liberation, 2.8.&3.8.1996; CRIDA, Rapport 1996; Glyn Ford, 1992, Fascist Europe, Pluto Press.

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