Fédération d'action nationale et européenne

The "Fédération d'action nationale et européenne" (FANE) was a small French far-right organisation founded in April 1966. Openly Neo-Nazi, it was led by Mark Fredriksen, a bank employee who became involved in activism for French Algeria after serving in the "paras" (paratroopers) there. FANE brought together three movements: "Action-Occident", the "Cercle Charlemagne" and the "Comité de soutien à l'Europe réelle".

Ideology and history

FANE activity was limited, with the group boasting at most a hundred activists. It published a review, "Notre Europe", related to François Duprat's Revolutionary Nationalist Groups (GNR), and a news sheet, "L'Immonde", which exalted "National-Socialist and White" Europe and proclaimed the "struggle to the death against the Judeo-materialist hydra." Members of FANE included Luc Michel, now leader of the "Parti communautaire national-européen" (National European Communautary Party), Jacques Bastide, Michel Faci, Michel Caignet and Henri-Robert Petit, a journalist and former Collaborationist who directed the newspaper "Le Pilori" under the Vichy regime. The FANE maintained international contacts with the British group the League of Saint George. [ R. Hill & A. Bell, "The Other Face of Terror- Inside Europe’s Neo-Nazi Network", London: Collins, 1988, pp.186-189 ]

The FANE rallyed Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front in 1974, gathered around François Duprat and Alain Renault's Revolutionary Nationalist Groups (GNR). They broke again with the FN in 1978, taking with them parts of the FNJ members (youth organization of the FN) [http://www.france-politique.fr/annuaire-extreme-droite.htm Annuaire de l'extrême droite en France] fr icon] .

After this brief spell in the FN, Fredriksen created the "Faisceaux nationalistes européens" (FNE) in July 1980. This group would eventually merge with the "Mouvement national et social ethniste" in 1987, and then with the PNFE (French and European Nationalist Party) in January 1994.

The FANE was dissolved in September 1980 by a decree of the Council of Ministers on September 30, 1980, under the third cabinet of Raymond Barre. Recreated, it was dissolved again on January 23, 1985 by Laurent Fabius's government, and a third time on September 16, 1987 by Jacques Chirac's government, on charges of "violent demonstrations organized by this movement, which has as one of its expressed objectives the establishment of a new Nazi regime," the "paramilitary organisation of this association and its incitations to racial discrimination."

References

Bibliography

* Pierre Milza, "L'Europe en chemise noire. Les extrêmes droites en Europe de 1945 à aujourd'hui", chapitre V, « Les principaux courants d'extrême droite dans l'Europe des Trente Glorieuses », Flammarion, collection « Champs », 2002, p. 144-145 ISBN 2-08-080083-3

See also

*History of far-right movements in France

External links

* [http://www.france-politique.fr/annuaire-extreme-droite.htm#FNE « Annuaire de l'extrême droite en France »]