{"id":12836,"date":"2026-02-20T00:50:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=12836"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:50:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:50:49","slug":"macron-and-meloni-clash-over-killing-of-french-far-right-activist-in-lyon-the-far-right-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=12836","title":{"rendered":"Macron and Meloni clash over killing of French far-right activist in Lyon | The Far Right News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>A war of words has erupted between the French president and Italian prime minister over the murder of Quentin Deranque.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><button class=\"article-listen-container\" aria-labelledby=\"listen-text listen-duration\" data-testid=\"listen-to-article-button\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-listen-container__text\" data-testid=\"listen-to-article-text\">Listen to this article<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0|\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"article-listen-container__duration\">3 mins<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/button><button tabindex=\"0\" class=\"tooltip-accessible_trigger\"><svg class=\"icon icon--info icon--main-grey-dark icon--16 listen-to-article-tooltip__icon\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\"><title>info<\/title><path class=\"icon-main-color\" d=\"M12 0a12 12 0 1 0 0 24 12 12 0 0 0 0-24Zm-.226 3.225a2.039 2.039 0 0 1 2.155 1.924v.193a1.998 1.998 0 0 1-2.155 2.149 2.029 2.029 0 0 1-2.146-2.15 2.039 2.039 0 0 1 1.955-2.122h.193l-.002.006Zm3.227 15.525a.75.75 0 0 1-.752.75H9.75a.75.75 0 0 1-.75-.75v-1.5a.75.75 0 0 1 .752-.75h.748V12h-.75a.75.75 0 0 1-.75-.75v-1.5a.75.75 0 0 1 .752-.751h3a.75.75 0 0 1 .75.752v6.75h.75a.75.75 0 0 1 .75.749L15 18.75Z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"byline byline--no-avatars\">\n<div class=\"byline-content\">\n<p><span class=\"contributors-list__by-prefix\">By <\/span>Agence France Presse<!-- --> and <!-- -->Reuters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 19 Feb 2026<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">19 Feb 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-share\" data-testid=\"rich-share\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__button-wrapper\"><button class=\"rich-share__button row\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p><svg class=\"icon icon--share2 icon--primary icon--16 \" viewbox=\"0 0 20 16\" version=\"1.1\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><title>share2<\/title><path fill=\"#000\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M11.688 9.048c-.659 0-1.252.282-1.673.733l-4.92-2.45c.016-.115.028-.232.028-.352 0-.117-.011-.23-.027-.343l4.913-2.423a2.285 2.285 0 0 0 1.68.739C12.964 4.952 14 3.899 14 2.6 14 1.302 12.965.25 11.688.25S9.377 1.302 9.377 2.601c0 .117.01.23.027.343L4.49 5.367a2.285 2.285 0 0 0-1.68-.739C1.536 4.628.5 5.681.5 6.979c0 1.299 1.035 2.35 2.312 2.35.659 0 1.252-.281 1.673-.731l4.92 2.45a2.357 2.357 0 0 0-.029.351c0 1.299 1.035 2.351 2.312 2.351S14 12.698 14 11.399s-1.035-2.35-2.312-2.35Z\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron has clashed with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni over the killing of a French far-right activist who was beaten to death by hard-left activists in Lyon.<\/p>\n<p>Meloni, a conservative, said on social media on Wednesday that the killing \u201cby groups linked to left-wing extremism \u2026 is a wound for all of Europe\u201d. Macron responded angrily on Thursday as he spoke with reporters on a trip to India, saying that everyone should \u201cstay in their own lane\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m always struck by how people who are nationalists, who don\u2019t want to be bothered in their own country, are always the first ones to comment on what\u2019s happening in other countries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if his remarks referred to\u00a0Meloni, Macron replied: \u201cYou got that right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, Meloni said that Macron had misinterpreted her comments. \u201cI\u2019m sorry that Macron experienced it as interference,\u201d Meloni said in a television interview with Italian news channel Sky TG24.<\/p>\n<p>Deranque, 23, died after being beaten during a far-right protest in Lyon on February 12. Seven people, including an assistant to a member of parliament from the far-left France Unbowed (LFI), will face murder charges in the case, a prosecutor said on Thursday. They were among 11 arrested earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>Lyon prosecutor Thierry Dran said Jacques-Elie Favrot, an assistant to LFI lawmaker Raphael Arnault, faces charges of complicity through instigation and was put in pre-trial detention. Favrot and the other suspects deny the accusations.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has jolted France\u2019s political class and fuelled tensions between the far-right and far-left ahead of municipal elections in March and the presidential race in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Opinion polls put the far right in the lead for the presidency in 2027, when centrist President Emmanuel Macron will have to step down after the maximum two consecutive terms in office.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"macron-and-meloni-tensions\">Macron and Meloni tensions<\/h2>\n<p>Macron, a pro-Europe centrist, and Meloni, one of United States President Donald Trump\u2019s closest European allies, have sparred in the past\u00a0over issues ranging from the conflict in Ukraine to trade and European policy.<\/p>\n<p>In her television interview on Thursday, Meloni alluded to Italy\u2019s so-called \u201cYears of Lead\u201d between 1969 and 1980, when the country suffered attacks by a radical Marxist organisation, the Red Brigades.<\/p>\n<p>Several former Red Brigades members fled to France, and their fate has been a sticking point between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ruling classes must [reflect] on how to combat a climate that could take us back a few decades, a history that Italy knows very well and that France knows very well, having given political asylum to the cream of the Red Brigades,\u201d Meloni said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A war of words has erupted between the French president and Italian prime minister over the murder of Quentin Deranque. 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