France will summon US Ambassador Charles Kushner over US comments on activist’s death
PARIS (AP) — France will summon the US Ambassador Charles Kushner To protest the Trump administration’s comments on this issue. He beats a far-right activist to death, The Minister of Foreign Affairs said.
Jean-Noel Barrot was reacting to the statement of the Counter-Terrorism Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, published in
Deranque, far-right activist dies from brain damage From a beating in Lyon, France, last week. He was attacked during a fight on the sidelines of a student meeting where far-left MP Rima Hassan was the keynote speaker.
His murder underlined an environment of deep political tensions in the coming period next year’s presidential vote. French President Emmanuel Macron called for calm on Saturday after nearly 3,000 people attended a march organized by far-right groups in Lyon to commemorate Deranque.
“We reject the use of this tragedy, which left a French family in mourning, for political purposes,” Barrot said. “We have no lessons to learn from the international reactionary movement, especially regarding violence.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated in its post that “violent radical leftism is on the rise and its role in the death of Quentin Deranque demonstrates the threat to public security.” “We will continue to monitor the situation and expect the perpetrators of violence to be brought to justice.”
Preliminary charges were filed against seven people. The Lyon prosecutor’s office requested that each be charged with premeditated murder, aggravated violence and criminal conspiracy. Six of the defendants were indicted on all three charges. The seventh was charged with premeditated murder, aggravated battery and accessory to a crime.
Barrot said that they had other issues to discuss with Kushner, including US decisions. impose sanctions Open Thierry Breton, A former EU commissioner responsible for overseeing social media rules and Nicolas GuillouFrench judge at the International Criminal Court.
Both were targets of “unfair and unfair” sanctions, Barrot said.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not make a statement about when the meeting would take place.
Kushner was summoned because of the letter he wrote to him in August last year. Macron He claimed that the country was not doing enough to combat antisemitism. Foreign officials of France met with the representative of the US ambassador due to the diplomat’s absence.
