Alain Soral announces that the government plans to dissolve his association “Equality and Reconciliation”

Has the controversy over the supposed links between Jordan Bardella and Alain Soral, triggered following a series of articles published by Mediapart, given ideas to the Ministry of the Interior? The fact remains that the controversial essayist with conspiratorial and far-right ideas continues to find himself at the heart of the news. Alain Soral announced this Sunday on X that the government plans to dissolve the “Equality and Reconciliation” association, which he founded in 2007 and of which he is president.

Alain Soral in fact publishes the content of a letter sent to him by the Ministry of the Interior on Friday, in which Beauvau informs him that the government "intends to initiate the dissolution" of his association, on the grounds that it "in reality takes up the current of your national-socialist thought, a direct reference to Nazism", which the ministry proves by quoting a sentence from Soral in a 2013 book: "I am not far right, I am National Socialist, but you can consider it worse!” The purpose of the “Equality and Reconciliation” association as stated during its declaration to the prefecture is “the promotion of the ideas of Alain Soral”. Consequently, the Ministry of the Interior considers that the association disseminates “an ideology propagating ideas tending to justify or encourage discriminatory, hateful speech and calling for violence against Jewish people, immigrants, women and the LGBT community”.

The Beauvau letter specifies that this dissolution aims in particular to stop the propagation of Alain Soral's ideas via several distribution channels used by the association, including in particular its The letter specifies that “these two associations form an inseparable whole” and that the envisaged dissolution will therefore concern both. A source at the Ministry of the Interior cited by Libération confirms “that a dissolution measure is indeed being considered and to this end a contradictory hearing is underway, at the end of which dissolution could take place”.

Equality & Reconciliation further specifies that in accordance with the procedure provided for by law, this letter “opens a period of ten days for observations”, adding: “Our lawyer will take care of it, but we do not have too many illusions”.

On his site and his social networks, Alain Soral denounces “a desire to kill our association” and an “unfair persecution” which “pushes him a little further towards clandestinity”, recalling that he is already in exile in Russia.