Serge Ayoub

Serge Élie Ayoub (born 29 October 1964), also known under the alias Batskin, is a French political activist associated with the far-right and formerly the hooligan movement.

[2] On a language study trip to England, he first learned about punk movement and became interested in neo-nazi skinheads.

He was associated with Alain Soral's movement, Égalité et Réconciliation, close to Frédéric Chatillon, member of Groupe Union Défense and founded a bar for conferences with Jean-Paul Gourévitch, Pierre Sidos, Pierre Hillard, François-Bernard Huyghe, Guillaume de Tanoüarn, Michel Drac, Romain Bessonnet, Jean-Marie Vianney Ndagijimana, Véronique Hervouët, David Mascré, Maurice Gendre, Denis Collin and Marine Le Pen.

In 2013,[3] he made several media appearances following the death of Clément Méric, an antifascist activist who died during a fight with skinheads.

The decision to give Ayoub public visibility was criticized by then-Minister of Education Najat Vallaud-Belkacem.