France: décès d'un jeune identitaire agressé en marge d'une manifestation
A 23-year-old student, hospitalized since Thursday after being attacked while providing security for an identitarian group during a demonstration in Lyon (east-central France), has died, the prosecutor's office told AFP on Saturday.
The attack took place on the sidelines of a conference by MEP Rima Hassan of La France insoumise (LFI, radical left).
The family of young Quentin called for "calm and restraint", while denouncing a "crime", according to their lawyer Fabien Rajon.
Also launching an appeal "for calm, restraint and respect", President Emmanuel Macron expressed his wish that "the perpetrators of this ignominy" be condemned.
"The investigation is continuing, it is now being conducted on the grounds of aggravated manslaughter, in addition to aggravated violence," the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
"It would appear that Quentin was ambushed and meticulously prepared by organized and trained individuals, in vast numbers and armed, some with their faces masked, who had carried out prior reconnaissance and who a priori had accomplices. These facts, if confirmed by the investigation (...) constitute a crime," wrote Me Rajon in a statement.
According to the Nemesis collective, which is close to the far right, Quentin was part of the security team responsible for ensuring the safety of its activists who were demonstrating against a conference by Rima Hassan at the Institute of Political Studies in Lyon.
The tragedy has triggered numerous political reactions, particularly from the far right. Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally (RN), called for "far-left militias" to be considered "terrorists," and La France Insoumise (LFI) for its part "condemns in the strongest possible terms all physical violence," declared its coordinator, Manuel Bompard.
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