Macron urges calm after far-right activist fatally beaten
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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.

  • ccunix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    We need less polarisation. The far left and far right are both wrong because the world is a complex place full of nuance.

    Personally I consider myself left of centre, but I also find policies that are absolutely core to the left abhorrent. That means I have voted centre right in the past, or centre depending on the situation.

    What is absolutely certain is this kid did not deserve to die and the people that did it should JUSTLY face the full force of the law.

    • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      “Even if your sainted grandmother is a republican, they are evil and will burn in hell for all eternity.”

      • Mike Malloy
    • yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Extreme centrism is also a thing. And it is as bad as the other, and reading your comment you could find yourself in this group.