From marginality to social integration

In the streets of Metz, Aurora Lorraine appears with black stencils or posters. In the same vein as ultra-right groups—violent far-right groups—Aurora Lorraine is trying to establish a presence. When it began three years ago, the nationalist movement consisted of four activists. And today? Like the National Rally, which is de-demonizing its image, the Metz group is trying to speak out and is no longer hiding. Its anti-immigration and virile discourse is finding an increasingly younger audience. Aurora Lorraine has grown to around thirty members and has nearly 3,900 followers on Instagram.

With a tight white T-shirt and a sword tattoo on his forearm, Léo, a young 25-year-old professional, presents himself as a "patriotic" man and comes from the "identity thinking" school [Editor's note: defending an identity from a cultural and/or ethnic perspective]. In March 2022, the construction worker decided with a small group...

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