Overview

• The Comité du 9 mai rally in Paris on May 10 drew around 1,000 far-right militants commemorating activist Sébastien Deyzieu’s death.
• The 24-year-old German participant wore neo-Nazi insignia and was recorded giving a Nazi salute with a heel click during the march.
• Paris police issued an obligation to leave French territory on May 13 after the administrative tribunal deemed his actions a danger to democracy and public order.
• He was detained at the Vincennes administrative-retention centre and expelled to Germany on May 20 following the rejection of his appeal.
• He is subject to a two-year ban on returning to or circulating in France under the terms of the expulsion order.