of prominent left wing, Jewish and black politicians, as well as leftwingers.
Key leaders of the group include a knife-wielding hoodlum called Charlie Sargent and vetchan nan codic wicker, whe has strong personal links with the loyalist paramilitary UDA. Comba: 18 is also linked to an international paramilitary fasNorth Carolina by USA Nazi leader Harold Covington.
Combat 18 recruits from establishod fascist groups like the KNP. organisine its noramil. tary "soldiers" on a secret cell system. The emergence of this group signals the emergence of a new, and more violent phase of fascist activity. FOLLOWING the appointment of arch right-winger Charles Pasqua as Interior Minister, three young immigrants have been killed by police.
Pasqua was the minister who dents" demonstrations in 1986 which ended with the murder of Malik Oussekine by a special corps under Pasqua's direct A 17-ycar old Zairian was shot in the head in a Paris police station, a 17-ycar old Algerian was snot by a drinken once man in Wattrelos and another was killed in Chambery.
Wounded
A -year old was serious v wounded after being shot in the back by police in Cherbourg. Police have organised massive identity checks on immigrant areas of Paris, In the wave of repression several demonstra.
Seventy young immigrants were aresica arter a Pans salering: many were wounded, including a young militant of the Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire, the French Trotskyist orpolice beat him up.
The killings and the repression against immigrants is the immediate consoquence of the clection of a richt-wing covemment dominated by the Gaullist RPR and the centre-cich UDE. During the election campaign the RPR in particular tried to outdo the fascist Front National in the racism of its election broadcasts.
Divided
The right is divided about how far to go in implementing privatisation policies and ausdential elections in two years' ens policy will be a high profile allack on immigrant workers and youth.
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