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French authorities opened a murder inquiry after 23‑year‑old far‑right activist Quentin Deranque died following a beating in Lyon on Thursday; the government blamed France Insoumise, which denied involvement.

Le Figaro
Death of Quentin Deranque in Lyon: a minute-by-minute account of a lynching that shocks France

Story - The 23-year-old student was beaten last Thursday while volunteering to protect seven members of the identitarian and feminist collective Némésis, who were protesting Rima Hassan's visit to the IEP in Lyon.

Death of Quentin Deranque in Lyon: a minute-by-minute account of a lynching that shocks France
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Le Monde
Mort de Quentin Deranque : dans l’enquête pour « homicide volontaire » ouverte à Lyon, six auteurs sont activement recherchés

En déroulant le récit des faits, le procureur de la République de Lyon a détaillé, lundi, l’extrême violence qui a provoqué la mort du jeune militant d’extrême droite, victime d’un traumatisme crânien irréversible. En attendant que l’enquête judiciaire avance, les accusations contre des militants antifascistes déferlent dans les sphères numériques d’extrême droite.

Mort de Quentin Deranque : dans l’enquête pour « homicide volontaire » ouverte à Lyon, six auteurs sont activement recherchés
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nilswilcke.bsky.social
Mélenchon et les élus LFI en alerte après les menaces de l'extrême-droite suite à la mort de Quentin D. à Lyon. Les attaques contre les Insoumis de l'exécutif ressemblent beaucoup à celles de Trump après la mort de Charlie Kirk aux USA. Ma carte blanche à voir sur @lemediatv.bsky.social
February 16, 2026 at 7:46 PM
La Repubblica
France accuses Mélenchon's party of the murder of a far-right activist

During the assault in Lyon, Quentin Deranque is said to have been present, and Jacques-Elie Favrot, the parliamentary assistant to a deputy from France Insoumise, was there. The government points the finger at the radical left-wing movement.

France accuses Mélenchon's party of the murder of a far-right activist
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Le Figaro
Death of Quentin Deranque: witnesses accuse Jacques-Elie Favrot, the LFI parliamentary assistant to Raphaël Arnault

Two close associates of the Nemesis collective say they were assaulted Thursday night by members of the Jeune Garde, including Jacques-Elie Favrot. It remains to be seen whether the parliamentary assistant is among the individuals, at least six, who lynched the 23-year-old.

Death of Quentin Deranque: witnesses accuse Jacques-Elie Favrot, the LFI parliamentary assistant to Raphaël Arnault
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Le Figaro
Death of Quentin Deranque: Raphaël Glucksmann attempts an anti-LFI bid, awkward silence from the rest of the left

STORY - While the MEP considered it 'unthinkable' that his camp 'cultivate the slightest doubt' about a 'possible alliance' with Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the future, the PS, with which he is close, did not comment on Monday.

Death of Quentin Deranque: Raphaël Glucksmann attempts an anti-LFI bid, awkward silence from the rest of the left
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Le Figaro
Death of Quentin: from 'noise and fury' to 'revolutionary action', Mélenchon’s hostile rhetoric

DECRYPTION - The strategy of brutalization and polarizing the political debate has the LFI leader drawing criticism after the deadly assault on a young nationalist student in Lyon.

Death of Quentin: from 'noise and fury' to 'revolutionary action', Mélenchon’s hostile rhetoric
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The Guardian
French police launch murder inquiry after far-right activist’s death in Lyon

Quentin Deranque, 23, who was on sidelines of a protest, died from a brain injury after attack that has fuelled political tensions French police have launched a murder inquiry after a far-right activist died in hospital having been beaten up in an attack that has fuelled political tensions in France. Quentin Deranque, a 23-year-old mathematics student, died from a severe brain injury at the weekend. The Lyon prosecutor, Thierry Dran, said Deranque was assaulted by at least six masked individuals. Police were working to identify suspects and no arrests had been made, Dran said. Continue reading. . .

French police launch murder inquiry after far-right activist’s death in Lyon
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Le Figaro
“The debate is no longer possible”: At Sciences Po Lyon, the far left dictates its rules

Four days after the violence that cost 23-year-old Quentin his life, the director of IEP Lyon says there was no 'risk to public order' in hosting Rima Hassan.

“The debate is no longer possible”: At Sciences Po Lyon, the far left dictates its rules
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Le Figaro
Death of Quentin: The government targets La France Insoumise, while presenting it as on par with the RN

Analysis - The government spokesperson blamed 'a moral responsibility of LFI' after the student's deadly beating. But the relationship with the Mélenchonist movement remains ambiguous within the Macron camp.

Death of Quentin: The government targets La France Insoumise, while presenting it as on par with the RN
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Le Monde
Death of Quentin Deranque: a murder investigation has been opened; no arrests at this stage, according to the Lyon prosecutor

While the government has pointed to the antifascist Jeune Garde, the prosecutor did not provide any details about the attackers' profiles of the 23-year-old far-right activist who was beaten Thursday in the streets of Lyon

Death of Quentin Deranque: a murder investigation has been opened; no arrests at this stage, according to the Lyon prosecutor
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marieallenou.bsky.social
Suite à la mort de Quentin Deranque, un narratif commence à émerger dans les médias mainstreams, faisant de Lyon une "capitale DES extrêmes".

C'est une distorsion de la réalité : ce sont les mouvements d'extrême droite qui se sont implantés et ont fait le coup de poing à Lyon depuis presque 30 ans
February 16, 2026 at 5:21 PM
NRC
France's public prosecutor's office: radical-right activist Quentin Deranque was murdered. Who is responsible?

On Saturday, a radical-right activist died two days after being attacked by seemingly anti-fascist demonstrators in Lyon. Leading politicians hold the radical-left party LFI responsible, which party denies any involvement.

France's public prosecutor's office: radical-right activist Quentin Deranque was murdered. Who is responsible?
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Le Monde
Video: Death of Quentin Deranque: What to take away from the prosecutor's press conference

The public prosecutor for Lyon, Thierry Dran, provided an update on the deadly assault on the identitarian activist, who was beaten on February 12 during clashes between antifascist and far-right militants in Lyon.

Video: Death of Quentin Deranque: What to take away from the prosecutor's press conference
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Helsingin Sanomat
France | A political killing stirs controversy – "In France, it's not the police who kill but the far left"

The prosecutor said at a Monday press conference that at least six people attacked the man at the demonstration.

France | A political killing stirs controversy – "In France, it's not the police who kill but the far left"
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Le Figaro
Major head trauma 'serious', no arrest... What to take away from the Lyon prosecutor's briefing after Quentin's death

Four days after the lynching of Quentin Deranque, 23, who was struck outside a Sciences Po Lyon conference, the prosecutor detailed the ultraviolent circumstances that led to the death of the young identitarian activist

Major head trauma 'serious', no arrest... What to take away from the Lyon prosecutor's briefing after Quentin's death
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Le Figaro
Quentin's death in Lyon: The Insoumis lament the effects whose causes they cherish

OP-ED - While the Insoumis reject any link to the alleged murderers of Quentin, lynched on the margins of a conference by Rima Hassan, they should not be surprised that their verbal violence and the theorization of revolutionary violence lead to the worst, according to the philosopher.

Quentin's death in Lyon: The Insoumis lament the effects whose causes they cherish
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Le Figaro
Death of Quentin: 'Those who lynched could not have ignored that they were killing,' says Thibault de Montbrial

Speaking on Figaro TV, the lawyer revisits the lynching that cost Quentin D.'s life in central Lyon on February 12. Given the brutality of the blows and their repetition, Thibault de Montbrial regrets that the initial opening of an inquiry was for "voluntary violence causing death without the intent to cause death" rather than for "murder in an organized gang"

Death of Quentin: 'Those who lynched could not have ignored that they were killing,' says Thibault de Montbrial
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La Repubblica
France accuses Mélenchon's party of the murder of a far-right activist

During the assault in Lyon, Quentin Deranque is said to have been present, and Jacques-Elie Favrot, the parliamentary assistant to a deputy from France Insoumise, was there. The government points the finger at the radical left-wing movement.

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