Last weekend on Twitter, Janez Janša, prime minister of former first lady Melania Trump’s home country of Slovenia, labeled the far-left group Antifa an “international terrorist organisation” following recent violence in France.
“Antifa is a global terrorist organization. Supported by the capital of financial speculators forging profits at the expense of the chaos caused by the operation,” Janša tweeted.
This was in response to a post by American journalist Andy Ngo highlighting Antifa violence in the French city of Nantes, where around 600 of the thugs gathered to oppose a meeting of the conservative presidential hopeful Eric Zemmour. Some chanted for his death and clashed with police.
“We know who Joseph Stalin was, we know the hundreds of thousands of deaths he caused, these people are only his distant descendants,” Zemmour said in reaction.
Prime Minister Janša is not the first world leader to label Antifa a terrorist group. Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump urged former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to designate Antifa a terrorist group earlier this year before leaving office.