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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Diane Taylor

French authorities ban British far-right activists from gathering at weekend

Daniel Thomas speaks to camera in a YouTube screenshot: he wears a black woollen hat pulled down over his forehead and a dark green anorak, and appears to be standing in a car park.
Daniel Thomas, an associate of Tommy Robinson, is running Operation Overlord, which has planned a gathering of far-right activists in northern France this weekend. Photograph: YouTube

French authorities have announced a sweeping ban on British far-right activists planning to take part in a “stop the boats” protest against asylum seekers hoping to cross the Channel to the UK.

Friday’s announcement by the prefecture in northern France goes further than a previous ban by the French interior ministry on 10 unnamed far-right activists associated with the organisation Raise the Colours for “having carried out actions on French soil”.

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