- Local Name: Clan de Loups Blanc
- Transliteration: N/a
- Alternatives: White Wolf Krew
- Status: 2013 – 2015 (Defeated)
- Conflicts: National-Socialist Violence in France
The White Wolves Crew [WWK; Clan de Loups Blanc] was a neo-national socialist outfit active in northern France. It had a few dozen associates and was based in the town of Ham, in the Somme department.1 The WWK was active across Picardy and had a presence in the Nord department as well.2 The outfit was led by Jérémy Mourain. Jérôme Bailly served as Mourain’s deputy.3
The WWK grew out of the Picard branch of the neo-national socialist Third Way Movement [TV; Troisième Voie]. This affiliate was known for its violence towards rival neo-national socialist outfits operating in the region.4 In December 2012, its members brutally assaulted the leaders of the Autonomous Nationalists [NA; Nationalistes Autonomes] after they had called TV leader Serge Ayoub “a dirty Jew”.5 Around the same time, members of the TV branch also burnt down the compound of the Picard Crew.6
In July 2013, Ayoub disbanded the TV after it had come under scrutiny following the death of an anarchist in a fight with associates of the movement in Paris. Key members of the TV’s Picard branch subsequently formed the WWK.7
Although none of the WWK’s members owned a motorbike, the group styled itself as a motorcycle club to avoid detection by the authorities.8 The group tried to raise funds through crime. It stepped into the local drugs trade, but failed to make a profit.9 The WWK was also involved in fuel theft and some of its cadres were linked to robberies.10 Most of the group’s funding came from contributions by its members.11
The WWK maintained strict discipline among its members with corporal punishments for the slightest infractions.12 New members were forced to undergo initiation rites.13 Operatives who quitted the WWK faced violent retaliation.14
In January 2014, the leader of the WWK branch in the Nord department fell out with Mourain. He was brutally assaulted shortly afterwards by operatives of the outfit in Valenciennes.15 The French authorities started investigating the WWK soon after.16 In March 2015, police rolled up the WWK and arrested fifteen of its members.17
Seventeen former WWK operatives and Serge Ayoub stood trial in March 2017.18 On Mar. 30, the court found most of the defendants guilty. Most of the WWK’s members were given suspended prison sentences, but Mourain was ordered to be imprisoned for nine years.19 Ayoub was acquitted.20
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