in Lyon, Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounces a “trap” of the ultra-right and confirms his help for the Young Guard | EUROtoday

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Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in Lyon, February 26, 2026.

Two weeks after the loss of life of identification activist Quentin Deranque, 23, by the hands of members of the antifa motion, in Lyon, Jean-Luc Mélenchon counterattacked, Thursday, February 26, throughout a gathering in help of Anaïs Belouassa-Cherifi and Florestan Groult, respectively candidates of La France insoumise (LFI) for city corridor and the metropolis of Lyon.

While LFI’s hyperlinks with the Young Guard, the dissolved small group of which the suspects have been allegedly members, have been denounced from the left to the intense proper, the chief of the “rebels” denounced a “trap”, “deliberately set up by the Némésis association, young women who, as they themselves say, serve as bait to bring in anti-fascist activists, and then provoke fights because they are linked to far-right groups in Lyon.” He acquired a standing ovation from a packed room on the Labor Exchange.

“You have to look at everything” he insisted, recalling the prior contacts between Nemesis and identification activists, revealed by Humanity. For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, this collective voluntarily created the circumstances for the preliminary brawl, and subsequently participated within the genesis of the drama. “They needed an incident in order that armed, helmeted, hooded folks would seem. (…) A legal group! “, he lashed out, demanding the dissolution of Nemesis. A dissolution also requested by Sandrine Runel, deputy (Socialist Party) of the Rhône, candidate for municipal elections in Lyon on the left-wing rally list (excluding LFI) led by the ecologist and outgoing mayor, Grégory Doucet.

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