(Washington) Donald Trump signed a decree on Monday officially classifying as a “terrorist organization” the “Antifa” movement, which brings together groups claiming to be anti -fascism, the day after a tribute ceremony to the ultra -conservative militant assassinated Charlie Kirk.
The antifa movement, for “anti -fascist”, is more like a movement than to an organized group. It is a term generally associated with a fringe of the extreme left, often mentioned by the right and the extreme right about violence in demonstrations.
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk on September 10, and without immediately knowing the mobile, the right Trumpist had quickly designated the American left as responsible for the climate of political violence that reigns in the country and spoke of “internal terrorism” on the left.
“The problem of violence comes from the left. This is why Donald Trump has just ranked Antifa, a network of radical left terrorists who aims to overthrow the government by violence (…), as a national terrorist organization, “the White House said on Monday in a statement.
In the decree published by the White House, Antifa is also described as “anarchist”.
The American president had already announced last week his intention to classify as such this movement.
To date, the United States has no list of “national terrorist organizations”.
Its members, often entirely dressed in black, denounce racism, extreme right ideas and what they consider fascism, and believe that violent actions are sometimes justified.
In 2020, the former director of the FBI, Chris Wray, estimated in 2020 that it was “not a group or an organization, but an ideology”.
Figure of the 31 -year -old American ultra -conservative right, Charlie Kirk used his millions of subscribers on social networks and his interventions in universities to defend Donald Trump with youth and disseminate his nationalist, Christian and traditionalist ideas on the family.
The main suspect of his assassination, Tyler Robinson, is presented by a large part of the right as an “extreme left” killer. The latter, accused for murder, had denounced to his relatives the “hatred” conveyed according to him by Mr. Kirk and used munitions engraved with inscriptions with an anti -fascist tone.
