Mark Fredriksen

Who was Mark Fredriksen?

Mark Fredriksen was a French extreme right figure and the founder, in 1966, of the neo-Nazi Fédération d'action nationaliste et européenne.

He co-edited Notre Europe, which was the mouthpiece of the Revolutionary Nationalist Groups, a Third Position group headed by François Duprat, who later joined the National Front.

Fredriksen also stood as a candidate for the National Front at a time when the party sought out alliances with more radical groups due to the impact on their support that the Parti des forces nouvelles 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 Seine-Saint-Denis 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 François Duprat, feeling that Jean-Marie Le Pen was too 'soft' for his liking.

Fredriksen's controversial opinions have made him a target for direct attacks more than once.