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French President Macron urges restraint after right-wing youth fatally beaten
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French President Macron urges restraint after right-wing youth fatally beaten

France 24 · Feb 15, 2026 · Collected from RSS

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French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday urged calm and restraint after a far-right aligned 23-year-old man identified only as Quentin was fatally beaten on the sidelines of a conference by a hard-left lawmaker in the southeastern city of Lyon. The incident has intensified tensions between France's far right and hard left.

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