{"id":765476,"date":"2026-02-15T05:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/765476\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T05:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:34:14","slug":"conservative-activist-dies-after-being-beaten-by-masked-far-left-mob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/765476\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative activist dies after ‘being beaten by masked far-left mob’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A conservative activist has died after being beaten by a group of rioters during a protest in France. <\/p>\n

The activist, known only as 23-year-old Quentin, suffered multiple severe blows to the head in Lyon on Thursday.<\/p>\n

In footage from the scene obtained by French broadcaster TF1, three young men can be seen lying on the pavement being beaten by several individuals, while a cry of terror can be heard. <\/p>\n

Two of them escape – but the third, identified as Quentin, remains motionless on the ground. <\/p>\n

Further videos show several more of the attackers walking past the victim, leaving him on the ground.<\/p>\n

He was declared dead by traumatic brain injury on Saturday, with Lyon prosecutors adding that an investigation had been opened into suspected aggravated manslaughter.<\/p>\n

Quentin, a mathematics student, had been providing security at a protest against the appearance of left-wing MEP Rima Hassan at the Lyon branch of Sciences Po university.<\/p>\n

According to the right-wing Nemesis collective campaign group, Quentin was part of its security team.<\/p>\n

The family’s lawyer said Quentin was attacked by “organised and trained individuals, vastly superior in number and armed, some with their faces masked”.<\/p>\n

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Footage from the scene showed several masked people kicking and punching a man on the street<\/p>\n

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TF1<\/p>\n

Nemesis were protesting against Ms Hassan – who alongside Greta Thunberg was part of the Gaza “Freedom Flotilla<\/a>“, a fleet of boats which sailed to the Middle East before being swiftly turned around by Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It went on to blame members of a local anti-fascist organisation, which was banned by the government in June, for Quentin’s death.<\/p>\n

Ms Hassan’s hard-left La France Insoumise (LFI) party had its offices vandalised in several regions of France following the incident.<\/p>\n

“Last night, our premises and offices were attacked all over the country after Retailleau and Le Pen made a call, covering up and repeating baseless accusations against the rebels by exploiting the tragedy in Lyon,” said Jean-Luc Melenchon, LFI founder and leader.<\/p>\n

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Quentin had been providing security at a protest against the appearance of left-wing MEP Rima Hassan (pictured)<\/p>\n

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Marine Le Pen offered her sympathies to Quentin’s family<\/p>\n

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Ms Hassan condemned the attack – and said her security detail was not involved.<\/p>\n

Right-wing leader Marine Le Pen has since given her commiserations to Quentin’s family.<\/p>\n

After giving her sympathies, she said the “barbarians responsible for this lynching” should be brought to justice.<\/p>\n

She added: “It will be for justice to judge and condemn with the utmost severity this criminal act of unprecedented violence.”<\/p>\n

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Emmanuel Macron called for ‘calm, restraint and respect’<\/p>\n

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In the aftermath of the incident, France’s Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told authorities to increase vigilance around political gatherings and campaign offices.<\/p>\n

President Emmanuel Macron said: “In the Republic, no cause, no ideology will ever justify killing.<\/p>\n

“On the contrary, the very purpose of our institutions is to civilize debates and protect the free expression of arguments.<\/p>\n

“Pursuing, bringing to justice and convicting the perpetrators of this infamy is essential. The hatred that kills has no place among us.<\/p>\n

“I call for calm, restraint and respect.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A conservative activist has died after being beaten by a group of rioters during a protest in France.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,12,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-765476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116073022516077306","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}