Paris summons the American ambassador after his feedback on the demise of Quentin Deranque | EUROtoday

The American ambassador Charles Kushner stationed in Paris will likely be summoned to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to reply to feedback made by the Trump administration on the demise in Lyon of radical far-right scholar Quentin Deranque, the top of diplomacy introduced on Sunday February 22.

“We are going to summon the United States ambassador to France, since the United States embassy in France made a comment on this drama (…) which concerns the national community,” declared Jean-Noël Barrot, visitor on France Info/France Inter/Le Monde.

“We refuse any exploitation of this drama (…) for political purposes”, he added, believing that France had “no lesson, with regard to violence in particular, to receive from the reactionary international”.

The minister’s entourage, questioned by AFP, was not instantly in a position to specify the date of the summons.

Quentin Deranque, a 23-year-old radical far-right activist, was crushed to demise in Lyon by members of the ultra-left.

A second summons

The Trump administration denounced far-left political violence on Friday in a primary official response after the demise in France of this radical far-right activist, calling for these accountable to be delivered to justice.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni additionally commented on the demise in France of Quentin Deranque, upsetting a skirmish with French President Emmanuel Macron, who requested her to cease “commenting on what is happening to others”.

See additionallyPass of arms between Emmanuel Macron and Giorgia Meloni across the demise of Quentin Deranque

The American ambassador to France, who took workplace final summer season, had already been summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the finish of August after criticism deemed unacceptable by Paris on the “lack of sufficient action” towards anti-Semitism by Emmanuel Macron’s authorities.

“In the absence of the ambassador” Charles Kushner, it was the cost d’affaires of the American embassy who attended this summons.

Lift “unjustly imposed sanctions”

Emmanuel Macron additionally just lately wrote to Donald Trump to plead for the lifting of “unjustly imposed sanctions” towards a number of European residents, together with former European Commissioner Thierry Breton and decide Nicolas Guillou, reveals La Tribune Dimanche, citing the letter of which AFP was in a position to seek the advice of extracts.

“I would like to personally draw your attention to the sanctions imposed by the United States against several European citizens, including two French people, Nicolas Guillou, judge at the International Criminal Court, and Thierry Breton, former European commissioner,” the French president wrote to his American counterpart.

“I ask you to reconsider these decisions of your administration and to lift the sanctions unfairly imposed on Nicolas Guillou and Thierry Breton,” he provides.

Thierry Breton, accused of “censorship” to the detriment of American pursuits by the State Department, has been banned from staying within the United States since December 2025. This architect of the European directive on digital providers has been on the forefront of regulating tech platforms, with the United States seeing this as an assault on freedom of expression.

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The head of American diplomacy Marco Rubio additionally protested towards “blatant acts of extraterritorial censorship”.

“The sanctions adopted against Thierry Breton undermine European regulatory autonomy and are, moreover, based on erroneous analyses: European digital regulations have, in fact, no extraterritorial scope and apply without discrimination, on European territory, to all the companies concerned,” replies Emmanuel Macron in his letter to Donald Trump.

An “attack on the principle of independence of justice”

As for Judge Nicolas Guillou, he was sanctioned by Washington in August 2025, together with different ICC magistrates, resulting from his involvement within the arrest warrant file concentrating on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Also banned from coming into the nation, his Visa card – an American service – was additionally withdrawn by his financial institution in France. And he can not use a bunch of American digital providers, equivalent to Airbnb or Amazon.

“The sanctions adopted against Nicolas Guillou undermine the principle of independence of justice and the mandate of the ICC,” protests Emmanuel Macron.

“I am Breton and I can last a very long time” with no Visa card or American digital providers, assured Tuesday Nicolas Guillou, who got here to Brussels to demand an awakening of the EU on banking and digital sovereignty. “But I am not going to hold on if nothing happens,” he warned once more, earlier than a gathering with officers from the European Commission.

With AFP