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.
What a blatant interpretation of what I said.
It isn’t preemptive. It is direct, self defense against it. They start it by engaging in inherently violent rhetoric. We the. Tell them to stop spouting their oppressive bullshit. If they don’t, they will be made to stop to defend the community against them.
If you cannot understand this simple explanation, the. You cannot be helped or are clearly arguing in bad faith.