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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Quentin's death in a head-kicking confrontation with an ultra-left group in Lyon last Saturday shook the country. And it generated high tension, one month after the city's municipal elections.
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
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