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.

  • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    America has no concept of “radical left”. I can suggest something mild and end up being called a communist.

    • Alexander Daychilde@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      Precisely. As a progressive, what I want is generally considered pretty normal and basic in any of the other 32 OECD (“developed”) countries.

      There are a few that would be “radical”, but they are a tiny minority.

      Tell ya what, though, after putting up with fascist bullshit all my life, while I just want basic freedom and a social safety net, I’m willing to listen to these “radical” left. Certainly the regressive right has done fuck all for us.