Quentin Deranque, a pious pupil on the crossroads of the novel far proper | EUROtoday

Died on Saturday February 14 following a lynching within the streets of Lyon, Quentin Deranque is described by these near him as a pious, uneventful and hardworking pupil, invested in serving to the poorest, with little suspicion of radicalism. The small teams who’ve been paying honor to their “comrade” additionally inform the story of a younger man within the midst of his seek for identification. Through him the portrait of the brand new far-right youth emerges, of an integral Catholicism and attracted by “self-defense”.

An information science pupil at Lyon-II University, Quentin Deranque was additionally and above all, based on these near him, a parishioner eager on philosophy and morality, with the conviction of a missionary. A daily attender of the traditionalist Saint-Georges church, the place mass is alleged in Latin within the Vieux-Lyon district, he transformed “a few years ago”based on his pal Vincent, who praised on the far-right Radio Courtoisie “its moral and spiritual virtues”.

“He read a lot of Saint Thomas Aquinas and Saint Augustine”he added, portray the portrait of a bookworm reasonably than a “black rat”, the nickname of the violent activists of the GUD (Groupe union protection). The younger man’s radical political imaginative and prescient seems behind these phrases: “He was a standard younger man who had re-rooted himself. Who beloved his nation, who beloved his individuals, his civilization, his faith. Quentin belongs to the legend, he’s already a hero and a martyr. »

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