seven suspects indicted, together with the assistant of the “rebellious” deputy Raphaël Arnault | EUROtoday

According to our correspondent Richard Schittly, seven younger males suspected of getting participated within the violence which led to the demise of Quentin Deranque have been indicted, as a part of the judicial investigation opened for intentional murder and complicity, aggravated violence and legal conspiracy, on the night of Thursday February 19, on the Lyon judicial courtroom.

Aged 20 to 26, the seven suspects have been introduced to the investigating decide, then positioned beneath a committal warrant, after their look on the listening to of the decide of freedoms and detention, till late at evening.

According to the Justice of the Peace, 5 of the seven indicted admitted their presence on the scene of the tragedy, however all denied having the intention to kill. Still in line with the prosecutor, ” some “ admitted to having struck Quentin Deranque, “and/or other victims”.

Among the seven younger folks indicted and imprisoned, is Jacques-Elie Favrot, 25, parliamentary collaborator of Raphaël Arnault, deputy (La France insoumise) of Vaucluse and founding father of the Young Guard, a small anti-fascist group from Lyon, dissolved in June 2025 for its strategies thought of violent. He was indicted and positioned beneath arrest for complicity in intentional murder by instigation. Which tends to provide him a job of affect in the middle of occasions, even of chief for the prosecution, however not of voluntary writer of the deadly blows.