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Bloc Identitaire (Ultranationalist movement, France)

Flag of Bloc Identitaire, two versions - Images by Pete Loeser, Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg & Ivan Sache, 10 March 2011

Presentation of Bloc Identitaire
Flag of Bloc Identitaire

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Presentation of Bloc Identitaire

The Bloc Identitaire is an extreme right French nationalist political group. It was founded in 2003 by former members of Unité Radicale and several other nationalist groups.
The Bloc Identitaire claims to represent all "young French and Europeans who are proud of their roots and of their heritage." It opposes what it calls "miscegenation" and "imperialism" (both American and Moslem), and has organized campaigns and demonstrations, sometimes violent, against Moslems, Jews, Communists, and other non-white ethnic and political groups. The Bloc identitaire runs the Nationalist Press Agency and website called Novopress, and identifies itself with other neo-Nazi and extremist groups in other parts of Western Europe and North America.

One of their more imaginative, and less violent, activities was the use of soups with pork as "identity soups" (soupes identitaires) to attack and belittle certain ethnic groups. The group has been banded as "discriminatory and xenophobic" by HALDE (High Authority for the Struggle Against Discrimination and for Equality - Haute autorité de lutte contre les discriminations et pour l'égalité) a French independent administrative authority which "has the right to judge all discrimination, direct or indirect, that is prohibited by law or an international agreement to which France is a signatory."

Pete Loeser & Ivan Sache, 7 March 2012

Flag of Bloc Identitaire

The flag of Bloc Identitaire, with either a yellow or black field (photo), has the symbol of the "lambda Spartan" centered on it in contrasting black or yellow. A number of these flags were used by the Bloc Identitaire at the Pigs' March, organized on 14 May 2011, in Lyon.

Aleksandar Nemet & Pete Loeser, 7 March 2012