Mark Fredriksen (18 November 1936 – 25 August 2011) was a French

extreme right Far-right politics, also referred to as the extreme right or right-wing extremism, are political beliefs and actions further to the right of the left–right political spectrum than the standard political right, particularly in terms of being ...

figure and the founder, in 1966, of the neo-Nazi '' Fédération d'action nationaliste et européenne''.

Biography

Fredriksen co-edited ''Notre Europe'', which was the mouthpiece of the

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(GNR), a

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group headed by

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, who later joined the National Front (FN). He also stood as a candidate for the National Front (FN) at a time when the party sought out alliances with more radical groups due to the impact on their support that the

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(PFN) was having. Fredriksen was a strong critic of the PFN, arguing that they were just a more militant version of mainstream Gaullism. As such Fredriksen was the FN candidate in

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in the 1978 election where his 1.4% vote share was actually one of the higher results for the far right in an election in which they failed to prosper. Fredriksen left the FN after the murder of

, feeling that

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was too 'soft' for his liking. Fredriksen's controversial opinions made him a target for direct attacks more than once. On September 19, 1980 Fredriksen and a group of his supporters were attacked at the

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palace of justice by a group of people claiming to represent the Jewish Defense Organization. Fredriksen suffered a further attack on October 12 of that same year and had to be hospitalized. He died on 25 August 2011.

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1936 births 2011 deaths French neo-Nazis National Rally (France) politicians Neo-Nazi politicians {{France-politician-FN-stub