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The two main movements of the French ultra-right are presented in the Figaro (a conservaitve daily newspaper) dated 17 July 2002 as follows:
UR claims to fight "the stateless syndicalism, the exploiter (economic) liberalism, the crossbreeding jacobinism". UR activists are anti-American, anti-Zionist and anti-globalist but promote an "Imperial Europa, spreading from Galway to Vladivostok". UR was suppressed by governmental decision a few weeks after the attmept against Jacques Chirac (see below).
Ivan Sache, 16 July 2002
On 14 July 2002 around 10:00, avenue des Champs-Elysées, a
25-year old man by the name of Maxime Brunerie aimed at President
Jacques Chirac's command car with a .22 rifle. The lone gunman stood
among the crowd of onlookers who waited for the beginning of the
Bastille Day parade. He was immediatly
brought under control by two witnesses who had seen the rifle. One of
them, a psychiatric male nurse, had noticed Brunerie's weird
behaviour. After having controlled him, he was able to prevent him to
commit suicide. It seems that the gunman shot once, but his rifle was
turned off course upwards by the second witness. The bullet has not
been found yet.
According to ballistic experts, the probability for the President to
have been shot was extremely low in that configuration, but other
people could have been hit by the gunman, not to mention the wave of
panic which could have swept through the crowd.
Brunerie was immediatly arrested and questioned. Yesterday, he was confined to a special protected unit in a mental hospital because of his delirious behaviour. Psychiatric e