how the dying of Quentin Deranque impacts the municipal marketing campaign for the left | EUROtoday

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Rabya Boinaheri, head of the LFI list for the 15th and 16th arrondissements of Marseille, February 20, 2026.

There is just not a debate between municipal candidates that doesn’t point out the dying of nationalist activist Quentin Deranque on February 14 in Lyon, overwhelmed up by anti-fascist activists. The one organized in Lyon, on BFM-TV on February 24, gave rise to quite a few exchanges of arms between the 4 debaters: the environmentalist mayor, Grégory Doucet, Jean-Michel Aulas, supported by Les Républicains and the middle events, Anaïs Belouassa-Cherifi (La France insoumise, LFI) and Alexandre Dupalais (Union of Rights for the Republic, UDR, National Rally, RN).

This was additionally the case in Marseille, throughout the first – and maybe solely – televised debate bringing collectively the 4 predominant candidates, Thursday February 19. “The half hour on Quentin was not among the planned topics… We wanted to talk about Marseille, they took us for idiots”was irritated on the exit of this system, organized by BFM-TV, Mayor Benoît Payan (numerous left). Sébastien Delogu, LFI candidate, has, from the introduction, tried to defuse the controversy by paying tribute to Quentin Deranque, not with out recalling that in 1995, in Marseille, the younger Ibrahim Ali had been killed by poster pasters from the National Front.

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