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Jacques-Élie Favrot, assistant of LFI deputy Raphaël Arnault, had his parliamentary access suspended during the homicide inquiry into the death of Quentin Deranque.

  • Monday, February 16, 2026, the National Assembly suspended an LFI assistant's access after witnesses implicated Jacques-Élie Favrot in the assault that led to Quentin Deranque's death Saturday.
  • The Jeune Garde, formed in 2018 as an antifascist self‑defence group, has filed an appeal to the Council of State; Raphaël Arnault, LFI deputy and cofounder, highlights links to militant networks.
  • Police have taken statements from more than fifteen witnesses and are analysing videos of the assault, where Quentin Deranque was thrown to the ground by at least six masked individuals.
  • LFI responded by denying involvement while Gérald Darmanin said `It was clearly the ultraleft that killed` during the inquiry, amid party pressure and political fallout.
  • Politically, the affair imperils potential alliances as Raphaël Glucksmann called it 'unthinkable' to ally with LFI, while a demonstration in Paris on February 15, 2026, and investigators pursue the perpetrators.
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PORTRAIT - The parliamentary collaborator of the elected member of the Vaucluse was in front of Sciences Po Lyon on the evening of the murder of Quentin Deranque. He denied having participated in the lynching and withdrew from his duties during the time of the investigation.

·Paris, France
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Five days after the death of the young nationalist activist killed during a ringe in Lyon between anti-fascist activists and the extreme right-wing collective Nemesis, LFI tries to distance itself by denouncing a "political recovery". A minute of silence is planned in the Assembly this Tuesday 17...

·France
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For the witnesses, the 23-year-old of the right would have been beaten by the assistant of Arnault, politician of La France Insoumise. The party condemns, then disproves: . We are attacked.The death of the young Quentin Deranque last Thursday in Lyon, after a violent aggression by some extreme left militants, continues to shake French politics. Between Sunday and Monday representatives of almost all political parties condemned the event and attr…

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Some witnesses and the French government accuse of the death of the young man on the right of an extreme left and in particular the assistant of a Member of France Insoumise, the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon

·Milan, Italy
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Quentin Deranque died as a result of a group beating, and the far-left party La France insoumise got involved

·Italy
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In Vienna (Isère), from where he was originally from, Quentin Deranque "has a time militated" in the ranks of the French Action, according to the Lyon branch of this royalist movement, the oldest organization of extreme right in activity.

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