Serge Ayoub

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Serge Ayoub (ca. 1965 - ) is a former French neo-Nazi skinhead leader who was active in 1980s. He was born to a family of Lebanese immigrants. He is also known for his affair with Tabatha Cash.

He worked in various fields of neo-Nazi movement. He organised a group of hooligans known as the Luxembourg gang, among the PSG supporters. He was the founder of a Nazi youth league called Revolutionary Nationalist Youth, which campaigned for organised violence at schools, including University of Paris II: Panthéon-Assas which Ayoub attended, against gays, leftists, Muslims, and Blacks. He also carried the violence to streets, in conflict with leftist and anti-fascist skinhead groups. During this time he was given the nom de guerre Batskin, for his use of a baseball bat at fights.

In early 1990s, he opened a shop selling neo-Nazi accessories and fanzines, which was once arsoned by Betar, but the shop was closed in 1994 due to a court decision. He later served a prison sentence for trafficking drugs, soon after his release he left France.

In 2006, he opened a bar in Paris known as Le Garage (The Garage) in the Oberkampf district while claiming to have renounced his past beliefs and joining the biker gang, The Hell's Angels.