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The circumstances of the deadly assault on Quentin D., a pupil and nationalist activist, should be clarified throughout a press convention by the Lyon prosecutor scheduled for 4 p.m. The preliminary investigation, initially opened for “aggravated violence”has been prolonged to the {qualifications} of “fatal blows aggravated by three circumstances: the meeting, the use of weapons, the concealment of the face”. “The investigation is now focused on identifying the direct perpetrators of correctional and criminal violence”mentioned the Lyon prosecutor’s workplace on Sunday. At this stage, there has not but been a search or arrest and nobody has been recognized because the perpetrator of the assaults, a supply near the case assured AFP on Monday.

What is the precise location of the assault? Investigators hint the younger man’s route to find out the situation of the assault. Thursday afternoon, he was close to an indication by the Némésis collective, avenue Berthelot (eighth arrondissement). The ultra-right collective was attacked after unfurling a banner to denounce the holding of a convention by MEP Rima Hassan (LFI) within the premises of the Lyon Institute of Political Studies. The spokesperson for Némésis affirmed that Quentin D. was a part of its safety service, which the younger man’s household denied.

Police investigations are specializing in one other occasion, which occurred just a little later, round 400 meters from the IEP, rue Victor-Lagrange. The police confirmed {that a} violent brawl broke out late Thursday afternoon on this space, between two teams of radicalized ultra-right and ultra-left activists. Videos offered as these of the assault and broadcast by the media present three males being kicked and punched, one among whom stays on the bottom, apparently unconscious. Did Quentin D. undergo the deadly blows presently? “This is the most likely hypothesis”estimates a safety supply at World. Quentin D. was taken in by emergency companies within the early night, nearly two km away, on Quai Fulchiron (fifth arrondissement). Victim of a concussion, he was transported to hospital and positioned in a coma with a life-threatening prognosis.

Who are the attackers? The Lyon prosecutor’s workplace reported on Sunday that “several significant testimonies” collected by the police. Several identification actions accuse the Young Guard, an anti-fascist group from Lyon, dissolved in June 2025 for strategies deemed violent by the Ministry of the Interior, of getting fomented “lynching” by Quentin D. The Némésis group claims to have acknowledged among the many attackers a parliamentary collaborator of the deputy Raphaël Arnault (LFI), who can be a “active member of the Young Guard”. An assertion categorically refuted by his lawyer. In an announcement, the Young Guard denied any accountability in these “tragic events”.