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Police arrest 11 in the beating death of a right-wing student in France
Eleven suspects, including a parliamentary aide, were arrested in connection with the fatal beating of far-right activist Quentin Deranque amid rising political tensions, prosecutor said.
- On Wednesday, Lyon prosecutors said 11 suspects were detained in connection with the killing of Quentin Deranque, a 23-year-old far-right activist who died in hospital on Saturday after being attacked by at least six people in Lyon.
- At a university meeting in Lyon, clashes between far-left and far-right supporters sparked violence that led to Deranque's beating during a student event where Rima Hassan was keynote speaker.
- An autopsy found Deranque suffered a fractured skull and fatal brain injuries, while video and witness accounts show a dozen people hitting victims and using iron bars, TF1 television reported.
- Following the arrests, police secured La France Insoumise national headquarters in Paris after a bomb threat and France's National Assembly observed a minute of silence with a commemorative march next Saturday in Lyon.
- With municipal elections next month, political leaders blamed each other: government officials singled out LFI, Nemesis blamed La Jeune Garde, Jordan Bardella accused Jean‑Luc Mélenchon, and Raphaël Arnault said, `It is now up to the investigation to determine responsibility`.
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After the emotion, anger and the desire for it haunt the identity sphere to which the victim of the lynching belonged in Lyon, Quentin Deranque.
According to Le Parisien, Maud Brégeon asked Mathilde Panot, president of the LFI parliamentary group in the National Assembly, "to exclude Raphaël Arnault from his group, at least to exclude temporarily, (...) to say no to the violence." A statement that occurred the day after the minute of silence observed in the National Assembly in tribute to Quentin Deranque. After the death of the activist, who died on 14 February after having been lynched…
The Government and other parties consider that the leftist formation The Insumisa France has direct responsibility for the fatal beating that the victim received because of the climate of hatred and violence in the country
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