US EditionFrance to Disband Extremist Groups After Activist's Murder
- French President Emmanuel Macron will hold a government meeting to address violent ultra or extremist groups following the killing of 23-year-old Quentin Deranque.
- Deranque was beaten and killed by multiple people linked to the far-left Antifa group during a protest in Lyon, and seven suspects have been charged.
- Macron and other officials condemned all forms of violence and militias, emphasizing the protection of republican order and that no militias have legitimacy.
- The meeting will review actions against violent groups and potential future risks, including possible dissolutions without partisan bias.
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A report on a possible "reconstitution of the dissolved league" of the Young Guard was sent to justice by the Ministry of the Interior, and the dissolution of several groups is envisaged. An interministerial meeting was held on Tuesday at the Elysée in the presence of the Head of State.
Lyon: Killing of far-right student rocks French politics
The killing of far-right student, Quentin Deranque, by suspected far-left activists in Lyon has had reverberations across French politics and in Washington with President Trump weighing in over the killing. The US State Department had called the rise of violent radical leftism a threat to public safety. In Lyon, the debate has intensified about whether far-left violent extremism is now more of a threat than that of the far-right.
Of the seven persons charged with murder or complicity in the Quentin Deranque case, many belonged to the Young Guard, a group officially dissolved in the summer of 2025. The government seized justice on a possible reconstitution of movement. It also wants to dissolve other groups. But most of these groups have no legal existence, no association, no declared structure. The activists claim that these dissolutions have almost no impact. (Policy).
France to Disband Extremist Groups After Activist's Murder
France to Disband Extremist Groups After Activist's Murder In a decisive move, the French government is set to dissolve three far-right and one far-left groups in response to the recent murder of a far-right activist, Quentin Deranque, in Lyon.The killing, which occurred during a confrontation with suspected hard-left militants, has sparked nationwide outrage and underscored the deep political divisions within the country.This latest development…
Ten days after the death of the extreme right-wing activist Quentin Deranque in Lyon, President Emmanuel Macron gathers, on Tuesday 24 February, government officials to look at the fight against "high or extreme violent groups". If the ultra-right is historically divided into several branches, dynamics of rapprochement are observed in recent years in Hexagon. Explanations.
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