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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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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 39 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Nothing of value was lost

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 88 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

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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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 16 points 14 hours ago

You go Frenchies that is based.

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 104 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

His supporters say he was providing “security” - we all know the far-right lie 100% of the time, so he probably started a fight and lost his life.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 68 points 20 hours ago

Providing security in the way that Hitler's people did in the early 30's.

By showing up in numbers, starting fights, and then claiming to be defending themselves. A tried-and-true Nazi propaganda tactic, and I'm glad the French aren't standing for it.

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[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 133 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (6 children)

Since when did European media start using Trumps term ‘radical-left’ ?

There is no such thing, this is pure framing by the alt-right!

Trump calls everyone from AOC to Angela Merkel radical leftists.

[–] TomViolence@lemmy.zip 55 points 21 hours ago

I despise Trump's propaganda as much as anyone here, but LFI (the party of the mentioned lawmaker) call themselves "radical left".

We shouldn't let Trump turn this expression into an insult.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 17 points 18 hours ago

He calls biden and kamala radical left, it's a meaningless term like anti semite, no accusation can be taken at face value.

[–] lol_idk@piefed.social 21 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

The term alt-right is problematic too. I think you meant neo-nazis or just nazis

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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 33 points 21 hours ago (11 children)

There is no such thing

There damn well IS a such thing, I'm a radical leftist anarchist specifically. But you're right in that regular liberals like AOC are not. "Radical" just means outside of mainstream political thought.

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[–] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 149 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

rot in hell you nazi fuck.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 79 points 22 hours ago (9 children)

Nazi lives don't matter!

They really really don't... at all.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 40 points 21 hours ago

Far right meaning Nazi in this case?

I won't cry any tears for dead Nazis.

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