Federation of National and European Action Fédération d'action nationale et européenne | |
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| President | Mark Fredriksen |
| Founded | 1966 (1966) |
| Dissolved | 1987 (1987) |
| Headquarters | France |
| Newspaper | Notre Europe andL'Immonde |
| Ideology | Neo-Nazism Pan-Europeanism [1] |
| Political position | Far-right |
TheFédération d'action nationale et européenne (FANE) was a smallFrench far-rightneo-Nazi organisation founded in April 1966. It was led byMark Fredriksen, a bank employee who became involved in activism forFrench Algeria after serving in theparas (paratroopers) there. FANE brought together three movements:Action-Occident, theCercle Charlemagne and theComité de soutien à l'Europe réelle.
FANE activity was limited: the group had at most a hundred activists. It published a review,Notre Europe, related toFrançois Duprat'sRevolutionary Nationalist Groups (GNR), and a news sheet,L'Immonde, which exalted "National-Socialist and White"Europe and proclaimed the "struggle to the death against theJudeo-materialisthydra." Members of FANE includedLuc Michel, now leader of theParti communautaire national-européen (National European Community Party), Jacques Bastide, Michel Faci, Michel Caignet andHenri-Robert Petit, a journalist and formercollaborationist who had directed the newspaperLe Pilori under theVichy regime. The FANE maintained international contacts with the British group theLeague of Saint George andPekka Siitoin's groups in Finland.[2][3][4]
The FANE ralliedJean-Marie Le Pen'sNational Front in 1974, gathered aroundFrançois Duprat and Alain Renault'sRevolutionary Nationalist Groups (GNR). It broke with the FN again in 1978, taking with it parts of the FNJ members (youth organization of the FN).[5]
After this brief spell in the FN, Fredriksen created theFaisceaux Nationalistes Européens (FNE) in July 1980. This group would eventually merge with theMouvement national et social ethniste in 1987, and then with theFrench and European Nationalist Party (PNFE) in January 1994.
The FANE was dissolved in September 1980 by adecree of theCouncil of Ministers on September 30, 1980, under the third cabinet ofRaymond Barre. Recreated, it was dissolved again on January 23, 1985, byLaurent Fabius's government, and a third time on September 16, 1987, byJacques Chirac's government, on charges of "violent demonstrations organized by this movement, which has as one of its expressed objectives the establishment of a newNazi regime," the "paramilitary organisation of this association and its incitations toracial discrimination."
