{"id":781488,"date":"2026-02-22T12:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/781488\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:16:13","slug":"france-to-summon-us-ambassador-over-comments-on-far-right-activists-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/781488\/","title":{"rendered":"France to summon US ambassador over comments on far-right activist&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PARIS, Feb 22 (Reuters) &#8211; French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on \u200cSunday that he would summon the \u200cU.S. ambassador to France, Charles Kushner, over \u200bcomments on the killing of a French far-right activist last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We refuse all political opportunism around this drama, which \u200cis the bereavement \u2060of a French family,&#8221; he said during an interview with \u2060French media outlets France Info, France Inter and Le Monde.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">French far-right activist Quentin \u200bDeranque was \u200bbeaten to \u200bdeath in a \u200cfight with alleged hard-left activists, in an incident that shocked the nation and has been called &#8220;France&#8217;s Charlie Kirk moment&#8221;, referring to last year&#8217;s shooting of \u200cthe U.S. conservative activist.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The \u200bU.S. Embassy in France \u200band the \u200bU.S. State Department&#8217;s Bureau \u200cof Counterterrorism said they were \u200bmonitoring \u200bthe case, warning on X that &#8220;violent radical leftism was on the rise&#8221; \u200band should \u200cbe treated as a public \u200bsafety threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Layli Foroudi; Editing \u200bby Alex Richardson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS, Feb 22 (Reuters) &#8211; French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on \u200cSunday that he would summon the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5309],"tags":[130164,2000,299,36,196727,143164,228001,79952],"class_list":["post-781488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-charles-kushner","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-france-info","tag-france-inter","tag-french-far-right-activist","tag-french-foreign-minister"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116114239678546672","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781488","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=781488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}