The searches proceed. The Lyon Public Prosecutor’s Office has not but recognized the six individuals who, masked, lynched Quentin Deranque, 23, on Thursday, who later died from the injuries he suffered on Saturday. The incident instantly took on a political character: Deranque was a Christian fundamentalist and the assault occurred whereas he was demonstrating in opposition to MEP Rima Hassan, who was visiting the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Lyon, the French capital the place ultra-left and ultra-right actions conflict with generally violent initiatives.
The French metropolis prosecutor, Thierry Dran, didn’t explicitly need to hyperlink the assault to the acute left, however the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin and the Minister of the Interior Laurent Nunes had no qualms. Deranque was within the safety element of the feminist collective Némésis: seven demonstrators from the group in protection of “Western women” had been contesting the presence in a debate of the politician and jurist of France Insoumise, born in Palestinian territory and naturalized French, identified for contemplating Hamas “legitimate from the point of view of international law” which acts on the premise of a “right to resist against foreign occupation”: for these sentences some French politicians have requested that her French nationality be withdrawn (potential in case of unworthiness and disloyalty).
The suspect
In any case, there’s a suspect, indicated by the Némésis demonstrators: it’s Jacques-Elie Favrot, the parliamentary assistant of Raphäel Arnault whose entry to the Assemblée nationale has been preventively suspended. The investigations are specializing in the left-wing group La Jeune Garde, created in 2018 and dissolved in 2025. It was based by Arnault, deputy of France Insoumise, already sentenced to 4 months’ probation for “voluntary violence in competition”, after the assault of an 18-year-old in Lyon. A number of months in the past, he additionally allegedly threatened a Némésis militant, Alice Cordier, to “shoot her in the head”. La France Insoumise, nonetheless, denied any hyperlink with La Jeune Garde.
Deranque studied information science, attended the traditionalist Saint-Georges church, the place mass is well known in Latin, and was enthusiastic about theology and philosophy. He was linked, it appears, to the nationalist-revolutionary present of the Lyon proper, and attended Academia Christiana, which in 20023 Darmarin, then Minister of the Interior, wished to dissolve.
Political controversy between the far left and the far proper is due to this fact inevitable. The Rassemblement nationwide denies that it was an accident, whereas Marion Maréchal, Marine Le Pen’s “dissident” niece, requested if the presence of the Jeune Garde on the assembly was intentional, maybe as a safety service, and if it had had exact directions. La France Insoumise, via Mathilde Panot, denied that there was any involvement of the now disbanded Jeune Garde and that these accountable needs to be “punished and condemned”.
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