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.

  • pimpampoom@lemmy.zipEnglish
    347·
    1 day ago

    Not agreeing with the comment but, far-right = Nazi.

    Tho I don’t think saying they deserve to die is true, those people have just fallen in the lies of the far right parties and are scared.

    • RalfWausE@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      This is a war, there may be good people on the other side that were tricked into joining, but they are still on the other side.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      342·
      1 day ago

      those people have just fallen in the lies of the far right parties and are scared.

      No, I’m done trying to find novel or justifiable reasons for people to support Nazis. The most likely answer is that there’s something in it for them. Not because they’re scared, but because they believe that naziism will get them something (power, control, money, etc) that they wouldn’t otherwise have. It’s an entirely self-serving ideology, so why would anyone follow it for reasons that aren’t rooted in selfishness?

    • Bullerfar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      216·
      21 hours ago

      Everyone is calling people far right nowadays just because they think the boarders shouldnt be kept open to anyone. This is why I ask, because the far left is throwing the word around like Nothin.

      • yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        This dude was member of a far right collective who regularly would roam the streets of Lyon to beat up almost to death every individual they found not looking like their idea of a French person. This is very well known and documented in French media.