Alain Escada
{{Short description|Belgian far-right activist}}
{{BLP sources|date=April 2017}}
Alain Escada, born 16 May 1970 in Brussels,{{Cite web|url=http://www.civitas-institut.com/2012/06/01/entretien-avec-alain-escada-nouveau-president-de-civitas/|title=Entretien avec Alain Escada, nouveau président de CIVITAS|date=2012-06-01|website=Civitas|access-date=2017-04-11}} is a Belgian far-right activist.{{Cite web|url=http://www.resistances.be/belgchret07.html|title=Christian fundis lose case against RésistanceS|website=www.resistances.be|access-date=2017-04-11|archive-date=2012-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306075941/http://www.resistances.be/belgchret07.html|url-status=dead}} Since 2012, he has been the chairman of Civitas, a French Traditionalist Catholic organization.{{Cite news|url=http://www.slate.fr/story/62081/civitas-rechristianiser-france|title=Civitas, l'institut qui rêvait de rechristianiser la France|work=Slate.fr|access-date=2017-04-10|language=fr-FR}} Under his leadership, in 2012–13, Civitas opposed same-sex marriage in France,{{cite web|url=http://www.thejournal.ie/anti-gay-marriage-protest-paris-france-679755-Nov2012/ |title=Anti-gay marriage protesters rally in Paris |publisher=Thejournal.ie |date=2012-11-18 |accessdate=2017-04-11}} with Escada calling it a "Pandora's box" for polygamy and incest.{{Cite news|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/gay-marriage-protesters-turn-violent/news-story/e99da214e1e0e5a590bd2d629b4b2c27|title=Gay marriage protesters turn violent|date=2012-11-18|access-date=2017-04-11}}
In June 2016, Civitas changed its status from a cultural organisation to a French political party{{cite news|author=Marie-Anne Pinet |url=http://www.la-croix.com/Urbi-et-Orbi/Actualite/France/Civitas-devient-parti-politique-2016-06-28-1200772102 |title=Civitas devient un parti politique |newspaper=La Croix |date=2016-06-28 |accessdate=2017-04-11}} and in 2017 Escada announced that Civitas will run in the next French parliamentary elections.{{cite web|author=Madeleine Meteyer |url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/le-scan/2017/03/13/25001-20170313ARTFIG00126-avec-jean-marie-le-pen-les-catholiques-integristes-de-civitas-celebrent-le-pays-reel.php |title=Avec Jean-Marie Le Pen, les catholiques intégristes de Civitas célèbrent le "pays réel" |publisher=Lefigaro.fr |date=2017-03-13 |accessdate=2017-04-11}}
Escada is the President{{Cite web|url=http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2016/09/23/16131903.pdf|title=Statuses of the "Coalition for Life and Family" on the website of the Belgian Government}} of the Coalition pour la Vie et la Famille, whose status as a European party brings 500.000 euros a year of European funds.{{Cite news|url=http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/monde/20170225.OBS5773/comment-des-partis-nationalistes-ont-touche-des-millions-du-parlement-europeen.html|title=Comment des partis nationalistes ont touché des millions du Parlement européen|work=L'Obs|access-date=2017-04-10|language=fr-FR}}