Bruno Mégret, leader of an extreme right splinter group, even chose his mother, Colette Mégret, 78, to run in one district.
So it's understandable that a lot of people got pretty up in arms about the initiative not least the French NGO Human Rights League, which released a statement claiming that the GI's patrol was intended "to serve as a propaganda tool for their extreme right splinter ideas".
Both KZ and KN were clandestine incarnations of the pre-war National Radical Movement (Ruch Narodowo Radykalny, also known as ONR-Falanga" – a large extreme-right splinter group of the National Radical Camp).
The xenophobic extreme right, even as it splinters into squabbling factions, is still strong in regions with large Arab populations.
Extreme spatial shifts disrupt their splintered compositions.
Then, ten days ago, at an anti-austerity rally organised by the Party for Freedom, several extreme-right fascist and neo-nazi splinter groups show up, some of them carrying prinsenvlags.
"Unless something changes," she says, "we are on our way to bankruptcy or heading the way of Greece".One recent opinion poll gives the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), which splintered off from an extreme nationalist party but positions itself on the centre right, 30% support.
In 1999, Los Vipers split into two factions, with Abismo Negro leading a splinter group called Los Vipers Extreme consisting of Electroshock, Pentagón, Shiiba, El Cuervo and Mini Abismo Negro while Cibernético created a group called Los Vipers Primera Clase (First Class Vipers).
Ivanka Trump also describes human trafficking in exotic, extreme and amorphous terms, saying the phenomenon "splinters families, distorts global markets, undermines the rule of law, strengthens transnational organized criminal networks and threatens national security".
Perhaps each will form two splinter groups: one moderate and one extreme.
