On April 9, 2023, Me Pierre-Marie Bonneau, lawyer and main counsel for the French far-right, was attacked on the terrace of a bar in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) while he was with a friend. This attack, filmed and broadcast on social networks, was claimed by Ora_Toulouse, (Antifascist Revolutionary Organization).
On April 9, 2023, the lawyer and nationalist activist, Me Pierre-Marie Bonneau was attacked by a group of individuals. This attack was claimed by Ora_Toulouse, Antifascist Revolutionary Organization. While he was on the terrace of a Toulouse bar, accompanied by a “good non-politicized friend“, the lawyer was “recognized” Then “assaulted“.
Because Pierre-Marie Bonneau is a figure of the French extreme right. This close friend of the president of the French Nationalist Party, Yvan Benedetti, is the advocate of the most radical ultra-right. The revisionist Faurisson, the anti-Semite Alain Soral, supporters of the Union Defense Group (GUD) are some of his clients.
Me Pierre-Marie Bonneau does not hide it. He is a political activist. Known in Toulouse and nicknamed “pilou”, according to France Info, the lawyer was notably seen in demonstrations, behind the banner of “Jeunesses Nationalistes”, a group dissolved after the murder of Clément Méric. On October 10, 2021, the lawyer demonstrated in a cemetery in Toulouse alongside Yvan Benedetti to “pay homage” to Pierre Lespinasse, a former Toulouse magistrate under Vichy, at the head of a special section which sent resistance fighters to death. .
For him, it is this militant who would be at the origin of his aggression. “I advocated for anti-gaypride activists in Bordeaux. My attackers would be from Bordeaux“Filmed, this attack or this”hazing“as we can read in the description of the video of the antifascists, was broadcast on the Instagram page of Ora_Toulouse. “It’s silly, cowardly, dangerous. The activists I defend don’t do that“, replies the lawyer.
“In the end, I only received a punch. For my part, I mostly tried to protect myselfr”, he explains. According to him, a dozen individuals made up this group. “At the time, I did not pay attention, but a few minutes before the facts, a young man came to ask me my identity, and I recognized him in the group of attackers.“.
This news item comes in an increasingly tense climate in Occitania between members of the far right and anti-fascist activists. On April 3, 2023, the courts sentenced an identity activist from the small group Patria Albigès to an 8-month suspended prison sentence for having attacked, a few days earlier, two students from the Champollion University of Albi (Tarn).
Me Pierre-Marie Bonneau indicates that he has filed a complaint. “I am waiting to see the investigation which will characterize the reason for the attack, before speaking to the bar.“. Contacted, the Toulouse Bar confirms that it is not aware of this attack and therefore does not wish to react. For its part, the group Organization Révolutionnaire Antifasciste de Toulouse had still not responded to our request at the time of the publication of This article.
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