Macron urges calm after far-right activist fatally beaten
www.lemonde.fr
The 23-year-old French man had been hospitalized in Lyon on Thursday after being attacked while providing what his supporters said was security for a protest against an appearance by hard-left MEP Rima Hassan at an event in Lyon. 'Hatred that kills has no place in our country,' the French president said on Saturday.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday, February 14, urged calm and restraint after the fatal beating of a 23-year-old French youth aligned with the far-right on the sidelines of a conference by a hard-left lawmaker in the southeastern city of Lyon.

The death of the young man – identified only as Quentin – has intensified tensions between France’s far-right and radical left who are both eyeing 2027 presidential elections.

He had been hospitalized in Lyon on Thursday after being attacked while providing what his supporters said was security for a protest against an appearance by hard-left MEP Rima Hassan at the Lyon branch of the Sciences Po university.

  • CovfefeKills@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    That’s radical dude. That’s rad.

    Radical has always been progressive in america. Right out of the civil rights movement co-opted by hippies.

    If you are backing down to the nazis and letting them change the meaning of words I am going to call you a weak dog.

    • Alexander Daychilde@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      There is nothing radical about progressives in the US. As a progressive… we are centrist in most of the other 32 OECD (“developed”) countries.

      Radical left would start with things like no private property, ownership of everything by all, things like that.

      So no, friend, I’m not changing the meaning of anything. Calling progressives in the US “radical” is already changing the meaning and wussing out on what actual radical change would be.