Nine suspects have been arrested in the investigation into the killing of right-wing activist Quentin Deranque, a case that has intensified tensions between France’s far right and hard left ahead of municipal elections in March, and the presidential election in 2027.
Deranque, 23, died from a severe brain injury after being attacked by at least six people last week in Lyon, on the sidelines of a conference by MEP Rima Hassan, of the hard-left party France Unbowed (LFI), at the university Sciences Po Lyon.
