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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.

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 9 points 1 hour ago

Fuck being calm. Rightwingers keep assaulting normies and our own, because they had suffered no consequences. We should change that, forever. It is easy to be conservative, when you don't pay for the wrongs you commit.

[–] Concur6053@lemmy.today 1 points 29 minutes ago

Easily the best news I've heard since the Kirk-ening of 2025

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 39 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Why is it called "far-right" and then "radical left"

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2 points 37 minutes ago (1 children)

Because the left is so dope!

[–] CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 1 points 8 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

It’s not often I’m able to read things in a voice other than my own, but I read this one as Jason Mendoza from The Good Place and it was perfect.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 16 points 2 hours ago

One is normalized and one is not

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I forget, what is the only good nazi...?

[–] EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

Von Braun? No, that isn't it.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 20 points 5 hours ago

"Chill out, everybody calm down. Its was just a nazi, the fucker got what was coming to him."

The French have a proud tradition to maintain.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 27 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Nothing of value was lost

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

You go Frenchies that is based.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 64 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

We're experiencing a wave of racist attacks and murders and the only thing they talk about is the attack where a fascist was killed.
We don't even know exactly what happened yet, most of the noise is coming from Nemesis another fascist "feminist" group.

Coincidentally, our biggest leftist party was unilaterally labelled "far left" by our ministry of the interior a few days ago. (Le monde used hard left in the article, legally they are a generic leftist party)

Coincidentally also, mayoral elections are in about 4 weeks, with an uptick from said party.

Nothing to see here, France is definitely not sliding towards trumpism and fascism at a blinding speed.

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