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France: Inquiry into Le Pen's militia

01 March 1997

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The French government has launched an inquiry into the Department of Protection-Security (DPS) the so-called security-wing of the French fascist party, the Front National. The DPS, which was formed in 1986, is led by Bernard Courcelle, a former paratrooper, and counts among its number former members of the OAS. The inquiry follows complaints by the CUP-SGP police union who object to the "militia" wearing uniforms that resemble those of the CRS, the French riot police. More significant is the fact that the DPS often pose as police; in March they and stopped and searched demonstrators at the party's national congress in Strasbourg. Last year truncheon-wielding militia members attacked protesters during a Front National rally in Montceau-les Mines in eastern France. In a separate development France's Movement Against Racism has threatened to sue party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen after he repeated that the nazi gas-chambers were a mere detail of the Second World War in an interview with the New Yorker.

Times, 18.4.97.

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