French interior minister Gérald Darmanin said on Tuesday he had asked local prefects to ban ultra-right-wing demonstrations after coming under criticism for allowing hundreds of neo-Nazi activists dressed in black to march through Paris at the weekend, reports FRANCE 24.
"We will let the courts decide if case law allows these demonstrations," Darmanin told the National Assembly, parliament's lower house.
The march saw several hundred members of far-right groups marching with flags and chanting slogans to commemorate the 1994 death of a far-right activist, Sebastien Deyzieu.
The rally passed through an upmarket Left Bank district of Paris and was authorised by city authorities, with police seen patrolling nearby.
Allowing the march drew a fresh round of criticism at a time when authorities have clamped down on people banging pots and pans or heckling members of the government at protests against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform.
Subscribe Some regions even banned "portable noisemaking devices" to shield Macron from the noise.