French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday, February 14, urged calm and restraint after the fatal beating of a 23-year-old French youth aligned with the far-right on the sidelines of a conference by a hard-left lawmaker in the southeastern city of Lyon.
The death of the young man – identified only as Quentin – has intensified tensions between France’s far-right and radical left who are both eyeing 2027 presidential elections.
He had been hospitalized in Lyon on Thursday after being attacked while providing what his supporters said was security for a protest against an appearance by hard-left MEP Rima Hassan at the Lyon branch of the Sciences Po university.
No, I’m not ignoring the context.
There’s a reason the death penalty has been abolished in most of the world. Just because someone kills people doesn’t mean that you should kill them in turn, and celebrating deaths is similar.
Especially when it is not clearly known who the victim was.
So you’re willfully ignoring