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.
This comment section looks exactly like the comment section of a post in a right-wing place that discusses the news of a far left person being killed.
Hitler celebrated the death of leftists and leftists celebrate the death of Hitler.
Reading the comments here feels like a superhero movie where the protagonist kills one million bad guys and then forgives the final villain because violence is bad.