France will summon US envoy Charles Kushner over comments on activist’s death
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France will summon the U.S. ambassador, Charles Kushner, to protest a statement made by the U.S. State Department regarding the death of far-right activist Quentin Deranque in Lyon. Deranque died from injuries sustained during a fight on the margins of a student meeting. The State Department's Counterterrorism Bureau posted on social media that reports suggested Deranque was killed by left-wing militants, raising concerns about violent radical leftism. France's foreign affairs minister, Jean-Noel Barrot, condemned the statement as political exploitation of the tragedy and rejected any lessons from the "international reactionary movement." The incident has heightened political tensions in France ahead of the upcoming presidential election.
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