Aurore Bergé denounces an “unbearable” act and factors to the duty of LFI | EUROtoday

The Minister Delegate in command of the combat in opposition to discrimination, Aurore Bergé, denounced, Saturday February 14, the assault ” intolerable “ of which a 23-year-old man in Lyon was the sufferer on Thursday. The sufferer, named Quentin D., “is between life and death because probably he was lynched and beaten, which is absolutely unbearable”declared Aurore Bergé, visitor on franceinfo.

According to the id group Némésis – which claims to be feminist, and continues to attribute duty for sexual violence to immigrants – Quentin D. was a part of the safety service liable for serving to its activists throughout their demonstration within the Sciences Po district in opposition to a convention by MEP Rima Hassan (La France insoumise, LFI).

The small ultra-right group claimed, in a number of messages on X, that Quentin D. had been attacked by far-left activists. The small group Némésis designated members of the Young Guard, an anti-fascist group dissolved in June 2025 and based by the Lyonnais Raphaël Arnault, who turned a deputy (LFI) in 2024 in Vaucluse.

“There will be an investigation which will determine exactly the responsibilities of those who beat this young man and who will have to answer for it, and who will be sanctioned and heavily sentenced”additionally affirmed Aurore Bergé.

Many political reactions

Very severely injured, Quentin D. was hospitalized and positioned in a coma. An investigation was opened for “aggravated violence”. The perpetrator(s) of the assault haven’t been recognized.

“I would be curious to know what was said at this conference, particularly on a day when we commemorated the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Ilan Halimi”younger Jew sequestered and tortured to dying, in a context “of a resurgence of anti-Semitism where no one can ignore today the role played by rebellious France in the re-rooting of anti-Semitism”declared the minister once more. She denounced “this desire of La France insoumise to infuse the youngest brains to tour universities, colleges, grandes écoles”.

This drama triggered quite a few political reactions, notably within the ranks of the far proper. The chief of the National Rally (RN) deputies, Marine Le Pen, known as for consideration of “terrorists” THE “extreme left militias”. The boss of the RN, Jordan Bardella, sounded the “mobilization of the entire political class” pointing the finger on the disbanded Young Guard group.

“It’s unbearable violence! A young man is between life and death, it’s terrible! »wrote on X the Minister of Education, Philippe Baptiste, asking “to the leaders of higher education establishments an even greater mobilization in this area”.

LFI condemns “all physical violence”

For his half, the president of the Republicans, Bruno Retailleau, questioned “the extreme violence which reigns in the satellites which revolve around LFI”.

For his half, the secretary common of the Renaissance celebration, Gabriel Attal, denounced “the violence of the far left [qui] was unleashed »evoking facts “extremely serious”.

Rima Hassan additionally “firmly” condemned the assault. “I learned with horror the facts concerning the young man Quentin, currently between life and death following a clash that occurred yesterday in Lyon between anti-fascist activists and identity activists, present alongside the far-right collective Némésis, who came to disrupt the conference in which I was invited to participate by Sciences Po students”wrote the MEP on X.

MP Manuel Bompard, coordinator of LFI, condemned “with the greatest firmness any physical violence” concerning the assault on Quentin D., assuring that no member of Rima Hassan’s group or her celebration had “had contact with small fascist groups who tried to disrupt” his convention.