Donald Trump a déclaré, dimanche sur Twitter, vouloir qualifier les "Antifa" (antifascistes) d’organisation terroriste. Mais ce que le président américain désigne comme une organisation n’est en en réalité, aux États-Unis, qu’une mouvance rassemblant des individus sans leader ni hiérarchie.

"The United States of America will call the Antifa a terrorist organization." On Sunday May 31, Donald Trump spoke again on Twitter about the protests that have rocked the United States since the death of George Floyd.

The American president uses the term "Antifa" (for antifascists) to indicate the supposed leaders of these demonstrations organized all over the country and some of which have been interspersed with violence, notably in Minneapolis, New York and Washington.

In the United States, the "Antifa" denote individuals or groups active as much against racism, as homophobia or the fight against unbridled capitalism, like the Black lives matter or Occupy Wall Street movements.

Antifascism across the Atlantic has no figurehead, no hierarchy, no established structure. The New York Times also points out that the anti-fascist movement is part of a "constellation of militant movements that have come together in recent years to oppose the far right."

"It is wrong to say that most of the people (...) who caused these degradations identify themselves as Antifa or antifascists. There is no evidence of this," said Mark Bray, author of the book "The antifascism ", quoted by AFP. For him, "it is a maneuver of the right to delegitimize this protest movement".