workingclasshistory:On this day, 5 June 2013, teenage anti-fascist and unionist Clément Méric was ki

workingclasshistory:On this day, 5 June 2013, teenage anti-fascist and unionist Clément Méric was killed by neo-Nazis in Paris. Méric and some of his fellow antifascists happened upon a group of fascists at a sale of Fred Perry and Ben Sherman clothing – popular with both antifascist and fascist skinheads. Despite being physically far smaller than the neo-Nazis, weighing just 66 kg and recovering from leukaemia, 18 year old Méric reportedly mocked them. A brawl then erupted in which Méric was punched in the face five times with brass knuckles before the fascists fled. Méric was a member of the anarcho-syndicalist CNT union, and was active in movements for LGBT+ and migrants’ rights. His killers were part of the Third Way fascist group. Two of them were jailed for terms of 11 and seven years imprisonment in 2018 but one was released after 55 days pending an appeal.In the years following his death, thousands of people have gathered to demonstrate in his memory around the anniversary date, and have been addressed by individuals including Assa Traoré, sister of Adama Traoré, a young Black French man who was killed by police in 2016. Tens of thousands of people have again been taking to the streets in France in recent days calling for justice for Adama, as well as George Floyd, an unarmed Black man murdered by US police. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1443275842524228/?type=3 -- source link

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