The Lyon Prosecutor’s Office opens a homicide investigation after the beating death of a far-right activist

The first elements of the investigation have been able to determine that Quentin had gone to the Faculty of Political Sciences to protest against a conference offered by the radical left MEP Rima Hassan.

After a first fight, a group of about twenty hooded ultra-left men managed to surround some of the extreme right protesters and the friends who had come to help them, among them Quentin, a 23-year-old mathematics student.

Three of these far-right militants were later surrounded about two kilometers from the conference site by a group of six hooded men, who gave them a beating.

Two of them, the prosecutor explained, managed to escape, but the third, Quentin, remained inert on the ground, until minutes later he was helped by a friend who tried to take him home when he found him still conscious and even able to express himself, although he had “forgotten the sequence of events.”

But upon seeing that his health was rapidly deteriorating, he called some friends and they decided to alert the emergency services who took him to the hospital where he died this Saturday.

The autopsy performed on his body determined that had a fatal head injurywhich prevented his resuscitation.

The prosecutor indicated that an investigation has been opened for “voluntary manslaughter” with the aggravating circumstances of their commission in a meeting, masked and in possession of weapons.

Political controversy

The case has raised a great political controversy in France and has placed the leftist The Rebellious France, by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, at the center of criticism from his rivals, on the eve of the campaign for next month’s municipal elections.

Dran refused to give any indications about the perpetrators of the crime and did not enter into the speculationsfueled by the Government, that they are members of the extreme left.

Early in the morning, Executive spokesperson Maud Bregeon had taken direct aim at an illegal group known as Young Guard, cIts founder, Raphaël Arnault, is an LFI deputy.

Bregeon assured that this party had a “moral responsibility” in crime for the calls for violence it launches and for giving shelter to that radical group.

Some media even published that among the aggressors was a Arnault’s parliamentary assistantto whom the presidency of the National Assembly prohibited access to the premises this Monday.

The prosecutor, for his part, limited himself to ensuring that the investigation continues without giving any indication as to its possible perpetrators.

“Our investigations are looking for the direct perpetrators, they are not based on rumors. They are based on a police investigation. Later arrests will be made, for now there are none,” said the prosecutor, who assured that this work “may take several days.”

Also He refused to confirm if they belong to the extreme left: “When we have identified them, we will be able to explain their links.”