I wonder if this might shake up parties at the extremes?
I heard it on the radio, but didn’t fully understand what was being said.
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I’m not sure the BBC reporting is completely clear either, but it sounds like a complicated tale. It makes me wonder if the far left is about to be shaken a little, and I’m hoping that might soften attitudes towards working with the centre more. I won’t pretend to suggest that I understand French politics or the personalities behind it.
It’s murky stuff. Apparently he was part of a protection squad for some ultra right-wing feminists(!) who were demonstrating outside a meeting being addressed by La France Insoumise MP, Rima Hassan. However the student’s parents say he wasn’t. He was attacked by members of the Jeune Garde, a proscribed organisation with supposed links to La France Insoumise, who are currently scrambling to distance themselves from the incident.
Meanwhile right-wingers are trying to make political capital out of it and Le Pen’s protège, young Bardella has said he would ban both ultra left and ultra right groups (er, including his own?!)
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The Guardian report seems to confirm the above, it says -
The attack took place as Deranque, a mathematics student, was on the sidelines of a protest against a university conference attended by Rima Hassan, a European member of parliament for Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s leftwing party, La France Insoumise (LFI).
The anti-immigration Némésis collective, which was protesting against the conference, said at the weekend that Deranque had been there to protect its members and was assaulted by anti-fascist activists. Hassan and other members of LFI have condemned the killing.
Not good any which way is it, it’s 2026 now, not 1966 ?
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