Posted on 02/19/2026 12:06:12 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Two more people have been detained by French authorities investigating the killing of a far-right student activist by suspected radical left militants in Lyon, bringing the total in custody to 11.
Quentin Deranque, 23, suffered a fatal brain injury when he was beaten and kicked during a protest last week on the sidelines of a conference held by Rima Hassan, a member of the European Parliament for hard-left party France Unbowed (LFI).
The wave of arrests began on Wednesday and included two parliamentary aides to LFI politician Raphaël Arnault.
Arnault said one, Jacques-Elie Favrot, had halted his work in parliament and his contract was being terminated. A second has had his rights suspended.
Prosecutors say seven of the 11 suspects are being investigated for murder and the other four for helping others to evade police.
Favrot's lawyer told reporters his client admitted being at the scene and committing violence but said "he wasn't the one who inflicted the blows that caused Mr Deranque's death".
Although the radical left party leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon has sought to distance the party from Deranque's violent death, LFI has come under attack from rivals across the political spectrum, less than a month before France votes in key municipal elections.
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Quick arrests.
Only because it looks like none of them is named Mohammed.
Hard left, far right.
Rima Hassan has useful frog idiots to do the dirty work. Dhimmies.
Did he try to stop any of it? Did he laugh, cheer?
He chooses to hang out with his "friends."
Beating someone to death by a bunch of savages , bring back the Guillotine
Favrot's lawyer told reporters his client admitted being at the scene and committing violence but said "he wasn't the one who inflicted the blows that caused Mr Deranque's death".I can't see how that would be relevant in any just judicial system.
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I added this after Charlie was murdered.
If you are slightly less progressive than Mao then you are far right in France, England, etc.
“far left”
I don’t recall ever seeing those two words together in a headline.
The word is “murder.”
wow, they might even get probation, or a letter in their permanent record
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