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Student death puts French far-left under pressure
Quentin Deranque, 23, died on Saturday after being beaten up on the street by a group of young men.
www.bbc.com
Quentin Deranque, a 23-year-old maths student and nationalist activist, died on Saturday, two days after being beaten up on the street by a group of young men.
State prosecutor Thierry Dran told a news conference on Monday afternoon in Lyon that a murder investigation has been opened into the death.
He said that Deranque was kicked and punched by "at least six" individuals, and that the autopsy showed fatal damage to his skull and brain.
On Thursday afternoon Deranque had given support to a hard-right feminist collective Némésis, which staged a small protest against a left-wing politician's visit to Lyon's Institute of Political Studies (IEP), commonly known as Sciences-Po.
Admittedly, the the label "hard right feminist collective" sounded kind of odd to me... After looking into it, it would appear they're getting the "far right" label due to their protesting against mass migration and the concerns surrounding women's safety issues that go hand in hand with it.
But obviously the Overton window is a little different in Europe (evidenced by the fact that they refer to Macron as "Centre-right"), so if that's their baseline, then perhaps that's why they would refer to anyone to the right of Macron as "hard right"
