Seven people accused of being members of an ultra-leftist group are in court on terrorism charges for allegedly organising attacks against the French police and military. While the Interior Minister has blamed violence during social protests on "ultra leftists", it is difficult to define them as a group, and terrorism charges have failed in court before.
The trial comes out of a report from the French DGSI intelligence agency that identified what it said was a group of ultra leftists lead by Florian D, an anarchist activist who went to Syria in 2017 to fight with Kurdish forces against the Islamic State armed group.
