US EditionMacron calls for 'restraint' after death of young man attacked in Lyon
The 23-year-old victim was attacked while providing security for a far-right protest; prosecutors opened an aggravated manslaughter investigation amid rising political tensions.
- A 23-year-old student named Quentin died after being beaten during a protest in Lyon involving a right-wing group opposing a far-left MEP's lecture.
- The attackers were masked anti-fascist activists who violently assaulted Quentin, causing severe brain injuries that led to his death, prompting a manslaughter investigation.
- French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the violence, calling for calm, restraint, and justice, emphasizing that no ideology justifies killing.
- The incident increased political tensions, with far-right leader Marine Le Pen demanding severe punishment and far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon denying responsibility and reporting attacks on his party's offices.
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In France, political confrontation becomes more radical, and left-of-the-art social-democracy excludes new alliances with France Insoumme of Mélenchon: “Unconcealedly”. According to witnesses, 23-year-old Quentin Deranque, was attacked by a group of extreme left soldiers.
In Frankeich, the violent death of a young extreme right has led to a political debate.
According to the witnesses Quentin Deranque was attacked with kicks and punches by a group of militants of the extreme left. In France the political clash is increasingly radicalized and the social-democratic left excludes new alliances with France Insoumise of Mélenchon: "Impossible"
Quentin D., a 23-year-old nationalist and Catholic of the Némesis identity group (next to the extreme French right), died in Lyon hospital on Saturday, February 14. He had been admitted since Thursday, when a group of militants from the extreme left beat him during a massive battle in protest over an act of MEP Rima Hassan of La Francia Insumisa (LFI), at the University of Sciences Po. Continue reading
The attack on Quentin Deranque, 23, shakes France. The Minister of Justice: "It was clearly the ultra-left who killed him."
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