Quentin D., a 23-year-old pupil, died on Saturday after a violent assault on Thursday on the sidelines of a convention by LFI MEP Rima Hassan on the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in Lyon, in keeping with the prosecution. The World takes inventory of what we all know concerning the case at this stage:
What will we learn about what occurred on Thursday?
The circumstances of the tragedy should “to be determined”in keeping with the Lyon prosecutor’s workplace, which opened an investigation “on account of aggravated fatal assault, in addition to violence aggravated by three circumstances” – “meeting, use of weapon, and accused whose face is concealed”.
For Quentin’s household lawyer, Me Fabien Rajon, the younger man was the sufferer of “ambush, methodically prepared” stretched by “organized and trained individuals, in very large numbers and armed, some with masked faces, having carried out prior scouting and a priori having complicity”. “These facts, if confirmed by the investigation (…) constitute a crime”he added in a press launch revealed Saturday after the loss of life of the scholar.
According to the identification collective Némésis, Quentin was a part of the safety service liable for guaranteeing the protection of its activists who demonstrated close to the IEP in Lyon. These activists have been “attacked”in keeping with the collective, which broadcast on X a video filmed close to the IEP the place we see one of many younger ladies being thrown to the bottom. The males of the safety service would then have been “pursued by a group of around thirty antifas” and Quentin would have been “attacked with extreme violence”, “swept to the ground, his head banged, then he was kicked”in keeping with the collective.
Another alleged video of the assault broadcast on Saturday night by TF1, filmed from a constructing, exhibits round ten folks hitting three folks mendacity on the bottom, two of whom handle to flee.
The firefighters reported that that they had rescued two folks round 7:40 p.m. – Quentin and one in all his pals – on Quai Fulchiron, in 5e district, nearly 2 kilometers from the IEP. “Very seriously injured”Quentin had been hospitalized in Lyon.
Who are the attackers?
The perpetrator(s) of the assault have, for the second, not been recognized, in keeping with the Lyon prosecutor’s workplace. The latter however reported on Sunday that “several significant testimonies” collected by the police. “The investigation is now focused on identifying the direct perpetrators of correctional and criminal violence”he specifies in a press launch. The Lyon prosecutor is because of give a press convention on Monday at 3 p.m.
Laurent Nuñez affirmed Sunday night that “obviously it was the ultra-left who were in charge”pointing to the attainable involvement of the anti-fascist group the Young Guard. “The investigation will confirm whether or not they were Young Guard activists. But the testimonies clearly point in this direction”declared the Minister of the Interior on France 2.
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The identification group Némésis claims to have acknowledged amongst Quentin’s attackers a parliamentary collaborator of the deputy Raphaël Arnault (LFI), who could be a “active member of the Young Guard”. The group, of which Mr. Arnault is without doubt one of the founders, was dissolved in 2025 by the Minister of the Interior on the time, Bruno Retailleau, for “violent actions”.
Called into query on social networks, Jacques-Elie Favrot, parliamentary assistant to Mr. Arnault, declared on Sunday through his lawyer, Me Bertrand Sayn, that he “formally denies being responsible for this tragedy”. He declared himself “threatened with death by the far right throughout the country and in Europe”.
In a press launch despatched to WorldAïnoha Pascual, the lawyer of the Young Guard, additionally remembers that this group “cannot be held responsible for the tragic events that took place in Lyon”since she has “suspended all its activities pending the decision of the Council of State” concerning its dissolution.
“Insoumise France bears no responsibility”assured Manuel Bompard, the nationwide coordinator of LFI, Sunday on LCI. Members of the motion’s safety service “had no contact with any of the groups that were outside” of Rima Hassan’s convention, he defined, questioning on the identical time concerning the absence of legislation enforcement within the sector.
Rima Hassan additionally claimed to solely collaborate with the safety service of La France insoumise “who never resorts to violence and who is in no way involved in these clashes”.
Who was Quentin?
Quentin “was neither a security agent nor a member of any security service”in keeping with his household’s lawyer, Me Rajon. Without “no criminal record”he “always defended his beliefs in a non-violent manner”. “Mathematics student, practicing tennis and philosophy”he was “invested in pastoral life”in keeping with the lawyer. He attended the Saint-Georges parish, within the 5e district of Lyon, close to the Quai Furlichon, on the banks of the Saône, the identical quay the place he was taken care of by emergency companies on Thursday, in severe situation.
Quentin had come “provide voluntary work” the safety of the Némésis collective, in keeping with an individual who’s one in all its members.
According to the group “nationalist-revolutionary” Audace, Quentin was one in all their “sympathizers”after having been a member of the far-right and royalist motion Action Française in Vienna. “He participated in many sports training sessions alongside us, again last week”to do boxing or jogging, informed Agence France-Presse a “spokesperson” d’Audace, underneath cowl of anonymity.
A gathering in Paris on Sunday
Several dozen folks gathered on Sunday afternoon, on the name of identification and nationalist teams, in entrance of the Sorbonne University in Paris. A banner proclaiming “Antifa murderers, justice for Quentin” was deployed in entrance of the college constructing and activists took the ground to pay tribute to their “comrade” .
Certain elected officers, executives of the National Rally, and far-right personalities, together with Marion Maréchal and Eric Zemmour, have been current. The gathering closed with a prayer and a minute of silence, and, after The Marseillaise was sung, the members dispersed with out incident.
The municipal marketing campaign suspended in Lyon
“I don’t see myself campaigning in these conditions. I call on everyone to take the time to realize the seriousness of the moment we live together”declared on France 3 the UDR-RN candidate, Alexandre Dupalais.
Former OL boss Jean-Michel Aulas, candidate of the correct and heart, and LFI candidate Anaïs Belouassa-Cherifi adopted go well with and likewise introduced that they have been suspending their marketing campaign for Sunday.
Without mentioning the suspension of his marketing campaign, the outgoing environmentalist mayor, Grégory Doucet, vying for a brand new mandate, deplored “a tragedy” and emphasised {that a} “such a surge of violence in the heart of the city [était] unacceptable”.
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