His name has come up several times in recent weeks, on the sidelines of violent events linked to meetings or far-right demonstrations. Marc de Cacqueray-Valmenier, presented as the leader of the dissolved ultra-right group the Zouaves Paris, was sentenced to one year in prison for the attack on the Saint-Sauveur bar, an emblematic place of the anti-fascist movement, in the district of Ménilmontant in Paris on June 4, 2020.
During the hearing in November, he was presented by the prosecution as the “leader” of this expedition carried out with baseball bats and tear gas.
Judicial review broken
Pending the verdict, Marc de Cacqueray-Valmenier did not really keep a low profile. In December, he was indicted after the violence committed against SOS Racisme activists during a meeting of far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour in Villepinte. This episode had led to the dissolution, on January 5 in the Council of Ministers, of the Zouaves Paris, a small group of ultra-right followers of violent flash actions in the “hooligan” style.
But also to the placement under judicial control of Marc de Cacqueray-Valmenier, control which he broke by participating in the anti-sanitary pass demonstration by Florian Philippot, on the sidelines of which AFP journalists were in turn attacked. The 23-year-old activist was then arrested Thursday in Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine) and then imprisoned, just before the deliberation concerning the attack on the Saint-Sauveur bar. The only defendant present, he was placed under an electronic bracelet by the Paris court.
