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France to summon US Ambassador over comments on activist’s death

People hold a wreath next to banners reading: "Justice for Quentin" and "Goodbye comrade", during a march in tribute to Quentin Deranque in Lyon on 21 February. REUTERS - Nicolas Economou

France will summon US Ambassador Charles Kushner to protest comments by the Trump administration over the death of far-right activist Quentin Deranque, the foreign affairs minister said.

Foreign affairs minister Jean-Noel Barrot was reacting to a statement by the State Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau, which posted on X that “reports, corroborated by the French Minister of the Interior, that Quentin Deranque was killed by left-wing militants, should concern us all".

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