Today, Tuesday, February 17, 2026, the French National Assembly observed a minute of silence during the plenary session in memory of the young university student, Quentin Deranque.
The incident occurred in Lyon last Thursday, while he was volunteering to protect activists from the feminist collective Némésis, who were protesting against the appearance of MEP Rima Hassan at the Sciences Po Institute in Lyon.
"From the very beginning, we have called the attack on Quentin Deranque in Lyon a 'lynching.' Quentin, a 23-year-old Catholic university student with his whole life ahead of him, was attacked by a pack of six men, while a seventh watched without intervening. Time and the accumulated evidence have proven us right. It remains for the justice system to judge this act for what it was, a lynching, and to condemn both those directly responsible and those who orchestrated it."
Dr. Javier Miglino Helfenstein. Expert in Human Rights and Child Protection.
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QUENTIN DERANQUE
IN MEMORIAM