After the demise of Quentin Deranque, the restoration of the RN to switch the “demonization” to LFI | EUROtoday

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Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally, leaves the press conference held in Paris, February 18, 2026, following the death of far-right activist Quentin Deranque.

Marine Le Pen has devoted her political life to ridding her household and her celebration of “Beelzebub’s tunic”. Since the deadly lynching of a younger activist from the nationalist-revolutionary motion, Quentin Deranque, on Thursday February 12 in Lyon, on the sidelines of a brawl between small radical teams of the far proper and the far left, the National Rally (RN) has been busy dressing Jean-Luc Mélenchon and La France insoumise (LFI) within the notorious gown. The far-right motion didn’t await the primary components of the investigation, nor the arrests focusing on particularly a number of members of the Young Guard – anti-fascist formation created in 2018 by Raphaël Arnault, now deputy (LFI) of Vaucluse –, to denounce the ” responsibility “ on this drama of the previous socialist senator, and granting the “rebels” the monopoly of political radicalism in France.

Per week after the tragedy, in a metropolis the place clashes between small fascist and anti-fascist teams are frequent, the time has not come for unity in opposition to the violence within the RN. Unless the union goals to increase in opposition to LFI the “sanitary cordon” which for a very long time stored the heirs of Jean-Marie Le Pen on the margins of debates and establishments. During a press convention devoted to “democratic peril” of “the extreme left”Jordan Bardella claimed, Wednesday February 18, his wager “away from establishments, whether or not within the National Assembly (…) or in view of the subsequent municipal elections ».

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