France’s council of ministers announced its intention to dissolve a neo-Nazi cell based in Alsace. On Feb. 1, Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin announced his intention to dissolve neo-Nazi groups, which he called “shameful” and “a menace and a danger” to France. At the end of April, the Elsass Korps received notification that it would be dissolved, and was given 10 days to appeal. Founded in the early 1990s, the group is the first to be dissolved under the government’s new program. It has been implicated in several investigations into the desecration of Jewish cemeteries in Alsace.
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