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France's Macron urges calm after far-right activist fatally beaten (www.lemonde.fr)

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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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[-] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 176 points 2 months ago

rot in hell you nazi fuck.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 99 points 2 months ago

Nazi lives don't matter!

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

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[-] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 154 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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 68 points 2 months 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.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 42 points 2 months ago

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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[-] lol_idk@piefed.social 22 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] hector@lemmy.today 18 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Uruanna@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

France has been doing that for LFI for a few years, with Macron pushing Le Pen. Right wing media (most of them) have religiously followed suit, calling them radicals and extremists.

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[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 12 points 2 months ago

Spaniard here: Podemos, a prominent leftist party that appeared in the 2010s as third political force, was categorized as radical since its inception by mainstream media. The party has almost disappeared now, mainly due to a plot by the state police and private media in which the police fabricated false investigations of funding by Venezuela and Iran (wonder why these two are always used as dogwhistles) and leaked them to the media to make a huge campaign of lawfare and manufacturing of public mistrust.

[-] Akh@lemmy.world 124 points 2 months ago

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 78 points 2 months 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.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

It's "security" to a "counter protest". We all know what that means. Play stupid games win stupid prizes

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 116 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

From what I gather there was a group clash of 20+ people and the nazi dudes ran away leaving 1 behind who just got clobbered.

It was right extremists "counter protesting" and the dead guy seems like a professional agitator providing "security service" to right extremists.

Tl;dr: they fucked around and found out.

[-] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 91 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago

One is normalized and one is not

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Aka the "Tubular Left" aka the "Cowabunga Left" aka the "Gnarly Left"

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[-] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Because the left is so dope!

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[-] texture@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

also to claim that "the radical left is eyeing 2027 presidential elections" is pretty wild. no radical leftists will be winning any election, sadly.

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[-] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 71 points 2 months ago

Nazi lives don’t matter

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[-] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 51 points 2 months 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.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 49 points 2 months 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 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Nothing of value was lost

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months ago

Far right meaning Nazi in this case?

I won't cry any tears for dead Nazis.

[-] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 2 months ago

Nazi lives don't matter.

[-] D_C@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Hatred that kills has no place in our country" - Man trying to stop hateful people who want to kill from facing consequences of their actions.

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[-] arcine@jlai.lu 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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[-] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago

I think the world needs less radical left and more militant left.

We've tried talking for the last 80 years or so. Its not working so well. So maybe we need to bring back the violence that defeated fascism last time.

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[-] Concur6053@lemmy.today 19 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

You go Frenchies that is based.

[-] Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 months ago

Such a tragedy

1000002702

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