Social Bastion
Social Bastion was a French neo-fascist political movement founded in 2017 by former members of the far-right student association Groupe Union Défense. Inspired by the Italian party CasaPound, the movement advocated nativism.History
Social Bastion was founded in 2017 by Steven Bissuel, a former president of the GUD branch in Lyon, and later spread to other French cities like Chambéry, Strasbourg, Aix-en-Provence, Clermont-Ferrand and Marseille. Valentin Linder became his new leader in 2018.
Social Bastion and six other far-right groups were banned by French president Emmanuel Macron on April 24, 2019.
