Maxime Brunerie
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Maxime Brunerie is a French convicted criminal and former neo-Nazi activist, known for his 14 July 2002 assassination attempt on Jacques Chirac, while he was still the President of France, during the
While Jacques Chirac was reviewing troops in a motorcade such as this one on Bastille Day 2002, he was shot at by Brunerie.
CRS in riot control gear
Far-right politics in France
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The far-right tradition in France finds its origins in the Third Republic with Boulangism and the Dreyfus affair. In the 1880s, General Georges Boulanger, called "General Revenge", championed demands
Georges Ernest Boulanger (1837–1891)
Degradation of Alfred Dreyfus, 1895
Jean-Marie Le Pen founded the Front National in 1972 and led it until 2011
Marine Le Pen succeeded her father as Front National leader in 2011