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France to ban far-right Catholic group for 'legitimising violence'

Catholics demonstrate against a play they believe is "anti-Christian" in Paris on 29 October 2011. © AFP / JOEL SAGET

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has announced that he intends to disband Academia Christiana, a movement of far-right traditionalist Catholics that he accuses of justifying and inciting violence.

Darmanin, whose ministry has already banned several other groups deemed dangerous, said in an interview with online magazine Brut on Sunday that he would seek the dissolution of Academia Christiana "in the coming weeks".

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