“We are considering classifying Antifa [as] a major terrorist organization […] This would make the work of the police easier,” Donald Trump told reporters on Twitter on July 27.
Consideration is being given to declaring ANTIFA, the gutless Radical Left Wack Jobs who go around hitting (only non-fighters) people over the heads with baseball bats, a major Organization of Terror (along with MS-13 & others). Would make it easier for police to do their job!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2019
As part of his usual array of stormy statements on the social network, the US head of state has indeed indulged in an uncompromising diatribe against those he described as “disrupted” and “deflated by the radical left”, saying that Antifas have been attacking pacifist people with baseball bats.
These remarks are to be regarded in a context of repeated violence in the United States between activists on the far left of the political landscape and supporters of Donald Trump.
Tensions have been particularly acute since the Charlottesville demonstrations in the summer of 2017. On August 12, a 32-year-old woman lost her life, after a car rammed into citizens who had wanted to oppose a conservative rally.
Already in September 2017, a leak of confidential documents revealed that the US Department of Homeland Security has since April 2016 classified the activities of violent left-wing groups commonly referred to as “Antifas” as “domestic terrorist violence”.
The decision may have international ramifications since Antifa members have recently been implicated in France in episodes of violence during demonstrations of the Yellow Vests.
In this context, it is interesting to note that the very aggressive militia, screaming “Paris, Paris, Antifa” attacked the security service of the Yellow Vests, and had physically threatened two of the leaders of the movement Jérôme Rodrigues, who had lost an eye, as well as Eric Drouet.
On Facebook, Antifa pretended that they had not threatened Rodrigues, but videos of their attack had been recorded during the protest.
⚡️JÉRÔME RODRIGUES / Durant l’#ActeXII des #GiletsJaunes à #Paris, il annonce sur son live Facebook avoir été 🗣 « exfiltré » du cortège car certaines personnes veulent s’en « prendre à lui » pic.twitter.com/5cb86Yk9BB
— Pure. (@PureTele) February 2, 2019
Plusieurs dizaines d’antifas viennent perturber le rassemblement des #GiletsJaunes à Daumesnil. Quelques rixes ont éclaté, les GJ tentent de les éloigner de la manifestation @A2PRL pic.twitter.com/HWeKjUF5Ic
— Boris Kharlamoff (@BorisKharlamoff) February 2, 2019
Protected by Interior Minister Castaner, who has never given instructions to the police to make the preventive arrests of Black Block or antifas, or any militias of far left. Similarly freelance journalist Léopold Jimmy from Agence LDC News, was lynched Antifas during Act X of the Yellow Vests.
Antifas allegedly have as their objective to fight against individuals accused of proximity – real or supposed – to “fascism”. To achieve this, those who call themselves Antifascists, use methods such as beatings, assaults, pressure on universities and other institutions, attacking bookstores and public vandalism.
