France, March 1 -- According to French domestic intelligence services, there are 3,300 individuals currently involved with one of the three main factions of the extreme right in the country: identitarians, revolutionary nationalists and monarchists.

The ethno-nationalist identitarian movement emerged in the early 2000s, before being represented on a national scale by the small group Generation Identitaire from 2012 onwards.

Its supporters advocate an "ethnic definition" of identity based on a "triptych of identity", explained Marion Jacquet-Vaillant, a specialist in the movement, to French news agency AFP. "For example, an individual is from Nice, French and European."

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