Raphaël Arnault, the founding father of the Young Guard who plunges La France insoumise into the storm | EUROtoday

His seat, on the high of the Hemicycle, remained empty on Tuesday February 17. The La France insoumise (LFI) deputy from Vaucluse, Raphaël Arnault, didn’t attend the standard inquiries to the federal government within the National Assembly. He is the person on the heart of the political twister which is weakening Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s motion because the demise of revolutionary nationalist motion activist Quentin Deranque, Saturday February 14, in Lyon. Investigators suspect a number of members of the Young Guard, the small anti-fascist group based by Raphaël Arnault in 2018, an allied motion of LFI, dissolved in 2025, of being on the origin of the tragedy.

Among the 11 folks arrested are two of his parliamentary collaborators: Jacques-Elie Favrot, often called “Jef”, and Robin C. who had been recruited by the elected official below the pseudonym of Robin Michel. According to Jacques-Elie Favrot’s lawyer, the latter acknowledges the “commission of violence”however denies being the writer of the blows which induced the demise of Quentin Deranque. The President (Renaissance) of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, stated she had suspended the 2 males from their rights of entry to the Palais-Bourbon. A 3rd man, near Raphaël Arnault, can also be suspected.

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