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Charlie Kirk mourned by world leaders after shocking Utah assassination

Charlie Kirk, 31, was fatally shot during a speech, prompting nationwide condemnation and highlighting rising political violence and extremist normalization, according to the Network Contagion Research Institute.

  • Charlie Kirk, a 31-year-old conservative commentator and Turning Point USA founder, was assassinated on September 11, 2025, at Utah Valley University in Orem during a speech.
  • The motive and details remain unknown, but the killing follows escalating political tensions and Kirk's warnings about an emerging 'assassination culture' on the left.
  • The assassination drew widespread condemnation from political leaders across the spectrum, with calls for unity, de-escalation, and urgent reform on mental health and gun access.
  • Lakshya Jain called the shooting 'absolutely horrifying' and urged reform, while Trump wrote on social media that every state "needs LAW AND ORDER."
  • Experts stress the country's response will be critical in addressing political violence, highlighting rising polarization and the need to reject violence as political action.
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Far Right

They don't hate the mainstream media enough: this sentence is falling more and more frequently in social networks. The reasons are currently opened up when reading the Spiegel report on the attack on Charlie Kirk. But also in the USA one turned free: An MSNBC analyst found shortly after the fatal shot that the perpetrator might have been also a supporter of Kirk, who shot himself indiscriminately – and that Kirk would otherwise have provoked the…

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Lean Left

Icon of the world MAGA close to Trump, the influencer adulated by the young was shot down on Wednesday, September 10, in Utah. His death plunges the country again into political violence.

·Paris, France
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Lean Left

After the assassination of conservative opinion maker Charlie Kirk, the question is being asked outside the hospital where he died whether open debate is still possible. "Should I start carrying my gun?"

·Netherlands
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Right

In the United States, the "cultural war" is a real victim. The popular conservative MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk was shot down in Utah in the middle of a conference yesterday. "No one understood or had at heart the youth of the United States of America better than Charlie," wrote Donald Trump Yesterday, in the 1960s-1970s (we are obviously thinking of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King Jr.), the martyrs of freedom of expression in Ameri…

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PJ Media broke the news in on Wednesday, September 10, 2025.
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