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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Deborah Cole and agencies

France to summon US ambassador over comments on far-right activist’s death

Posters with the image of Quentin Deranque behind bunches of flowers
A makeshift memorial to Quentin Deranque at the site of the attack in Lyon. Photograph: Nicolas Economou/Reuters

The French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, has said he will summon Charles Kushner, the US ambassador to France, over comments related to the killing of the French far-right activist Quentin Deranque.

Deranque was beaten to death in Lyon last week during a fight with allegedly hard-left activists.

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