The festival is in the crosshairs of the government. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has asked six prefects in eastern France to ban a neo-Nazi black metal festival that could be held on Saturday February 25 in an undisclosed location, we learned on Wednesday February 22 with the ministry.
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Four neo-Nazi-inspired ‘black metal’ bands are scheduled to perform, according to a gothic-print poster posted online ” in the east of France “. The exact location is not specified and reservations are made by sending an email to the organizers.
According Mediapart, who spotted the poster, we receive by return email a message explaining that the exact location of the evening will be announced only a few hours before the event. The message specifies that the payment (20 euros) is made online.
According to the information site, the festival, baptized in English “Night for the Blood” (“Night for the blood”) would take place within a radius of 20 km around Epinal, prefecture of the Vosges department. Other sources have reported a radius of 50 km around Saint-Dié, another commune in the Vosges.
“We are on our guard”
According to the Ministry of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin asked the six prefects potentially concerned (Vosges, Haut-Rhin, Bas-Rhin, Haute-Saône, Moselle and Meurthe-et-Moselle) to ban this gathering, and available “the necessary means” to enforce the ban.
Faced with the restrictions in force in Germany against the neo-Nazi movement, it is not uncommon for those nostalgic for the IIIe Reich in this country choose the east of France for gatherings, organized on private land or in communal halls, under different pretexts.
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When questioned, the mayor of Epinal, Patrick Nardin (DVD), told AFP on Tuesday that he was “checking all room rentals”. “We briefed the municipal police. We are on our guard”did he declare.
“How can we still have such gatherings today? »protested the mayor. “It revolts us, especially in sectors like ours where the Second World War left its mark. Here, there were many shot, Spinalians who resisted”did he declare.
On Wednesday, festival organizers did not respond to an email sent by AFP.
