Macron urges calm after far-right activist fatally beaten
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The 23-year-old French man 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 an event in Lyon. 'Hatred that kills has no place in our country,' the French president said on Saturday.

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.

    • texture@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 hours 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.

    • CovfefeKills@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 hours ago
      radical
/ˈradɪkl/
adjective
adjective: radical
1.
(especially of change or action) relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something; far-reaching or thorough.
"a radical overhaul of the existing regulatory framework"
2.
advocating or based on thorough or complete political or social change; representing or supporting an extreme or progressive section of a political party.
noun
noun: radical; plural noun: radicals
1.
a person who advocates thorough or complete political or social change, or a member of a political party or section of a party pursuing such aims.

      Radical change is literally the goal.

    • Kacarott@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      I don’t think I’ve heard of “radical left” outside of the US? In Europe I only recall “far left” and “far right”

      • Obi@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        5 hours ago

        In France the literal translation would be “extreme right” and “extreme left”.

      • CentipedeFarrier@piefed.socialEnglish
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        10 hours 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.