The trial against the staff of the skinhead group Blood and Honor Hexagone (BHH), a small far-right group dissolved in 2019 for its racist and anti-Semitic neo-Nazi ideology, opened on Monday before the Criminal Court of Marseille. for “participation in a combat group”.
With tattoos on the neck and skull, Loïc Delboy, 41, founder-leader of the group, and David Dumas, 51, treasurer of Hexa Prods, the association which serves as a legal showcase for BHH, took their places on the bench of the warned. A third, Pierre Scarano dit Pierrot-le-fou, secretary of Hexa Prods, announced his presence on Tuesday.
Connections to the underworld
A fourth, Jérémy Recagno, tattoo artist from Aubagne, sympathizer of BHH, was represented. “He is afraid of reprisals,” his lawyer Me Yassine Maharsi indicated at the opening of the trial. Four other defendants are tried only for crimes against the legislation on weapons, unrelated to the small group.
The investigation began in 2014 on anonymous information on the attack on a bank ATM destroyed by explosives, the C4 which was allegedly taken from the Toulon arsenal by a marine. And in 2015, the investigators began to take an interest in Jérémy Recagno.
Beyond the acquaintances with local robbers that earned him serious death threats, this former skinhead led the gendarmes to Blood and Honor Hexagon.
Edged weapons and clothing for the glory of the 3rd Reich
This small group, dissolved in 2019 by the Council of Ministers in response to a wave of anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim acts in France, brought together about twenty people. In some, investigators have found objects, edged weapons and clothes for the glory of the 3rd Reich.
They organized four major events a year, including the “White Christmas” and the Ian Stuart Donaldson, in memory of the English founder of this movement whose name takes up the motto of the Hitler Youth: Blood and Honour.
Concert organizers
The concerts they organize in the Lyon region can bring together up to 400 people. When one of them left in 2016, in the town hall of Torcheflon (Isère), out of 363 people controlled by the gendarmes, 68 were filed with the “Security of the State”, exponents of the radical far right.
A 2013 speech was also found on Loïc Delboy’s computer calling for “reclaim the land of our ancestors and not abandon it to the dogs of Israel and the sons of Allah”. The members of the BHH dispute any belonging to a fighting group, claiming to be only a musical label of identity.
