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.
And now he’s a martyr who’s been killed by the radical left terrorists who celebrate his murder.
I didn’t know him before he was murdered (only knew his face of the memes, didn’t know what he stood for) and I think the world is a better place without him. But if you advocate for and celebrate people being murdered in the streets, then you’re just helping the far right narrative, and frankly it makes you not any better than them.
It makes me a lot better than them, and you are an idiot if you think it’s equal in any way. And i literally just explained that no, he isn’t a martyr, he’s a joke among his own people.
Yes, that’s probably why Turning Point membership is growing.
Maybe not equal, but rather worse than many on the far right (probably not all, I’ll give you that). Murder is bad, full stop. I don’t know why I’m wasting time explaining this…