The U.S. embassy did not immediately respond to POLITICO\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n
Kushner found himself in hot water with French authorities over posts on X by the United States government weighing in on the death of 23-year-old Quentin Deranque, who was killed earlier this month in a fight on the sidelines of a political conference in Lyon. People affiliated with ultra-left groups have since been placed under investigation in relation to the incident.<\/p>\n
The X account of the U.S. Embassy in France on Friday<\/a> translated and reposted a statement from the U.S. State Department\u2019s counterterrorism bureau to the effect that: \u201cViolent radical leftism is on the rise, and its role in Quentin Deranque\u2019s death demonstrates the threat it poses to public safety.\u201d<\/p>\n Barrot said in a Sunday radio interview that France would not \u201callow this tragedy to be exploited for political ends.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe have no lessons to learn, particularly when it comes to violence, from international reactionary [forces],\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Kushner, the father of U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law and diplomatic envoy Jared Kushner, was also summoned last year after\u00a0writing in the Wall Street Journal<\/a>\u00a0that France was not doing enough to combat antisemitism. <\/p>\n