How "Europe Jeunesse" scouts have been training far-right leaders for 50 years, according to an investigation
Symbols inherited from neo-fascist movements or the identitarian movement, warlike exaltations, shared celebrations with the Nazis, racist speeches… All the ingredients are there to make the "Europe Jeunesse" scouts a neo-fascist breeding ground for leaders of the French far right. Libération reveals that this organization has been training the future leaders of movements, small groups, parties, journalists, and far-right activists of all kinds for fifty years.
The documents to which the daily had exclusive access show that the young people who "made" Europe Jeunesse are descendants of figures from the racialist movement Grece (Groupement de recherche et d'études pour la civilisation européenne) and the Nouvelle Droite , a school of thought that appeared in the 1970s and wanted to re-establish right-wing thinking on an identity-based software.
Libé thus mentions the daughters of Frédéric Chatillon, tutelary figure of the GUD , friend of Marine Le Pen and former contractor of the RN and Marc de Cacqueray-Valménier, young figure of the GUD and employee of Vincent Bolloré . Still in the GUD, the Vidal brothers, "known for their violence" , recalls Libé , also passed through "Europe Jeunesse". The documents to which the daily had access also mention the daughters of Emmanuel Ratier, far-right journalist who died in 2015.
Appears in the registers of surnames "known in the movement as Lusinchi, Schleiter, Mordrelle, Degrelle..." , reveals Libération . Another name in these documents: that of Romain Petitjean, current coordinator of the Iliade Institute. Or the Meynadier sisters, one of whom is the wife of Alexandre Avril, the mayor of Salbris and protégé of Pierre-Édouard Stérin .
Among the founders of SCI Temenos, a company that owns land in Cantal that hosts some of Europe Jeunesse's activities, are former members of the OAS , heirs of collaboration, ex-activists of post-war neo-fascist groups, and Claude Chollet, a figure of the New Right, at the head of a "Media Observatory" exclusively directed against organs labeled "left-wing." Also included are the father of RN MP Aurélien Lopez-Liguori, and Philippe Eymery, RN regional councilor .
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