The lynching of Quentin Deranque in Lyon. Here's what we know. Feb. 17


According to sources at the Lyon Prosecutor's Office, headed by Maitre Thierry Dran, the 23-year-old student was beaten to death on Thursday by at least six assailants while 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.

The judicial investigation:

"It was a mob attack; Quentin suffered a true lynching. Six men beat a boy unconscious on the ground, while a seventh watched intently and did nothing to stop them. The attackers were masked and hooded, which makes their identification difficult and reveals why they have not yet been arrested; this presents us with a scenario of aggravated homicide for three reasons:
- participation of a violent group
- use of a weapon
- perpetrators with their faces covered. This scene, which seems straight out of the worst moments of violence of the 20th century, occurred in Lyon, France in 2026. That is why it is essential to find the culprits and bring them to justice," said Dr. Javier Miglino Helfenstein, an Expert in Human Rights and Child Protection.

The suspicions:

Suspicion has fallen on the "Antifa" movement. The French Ministers of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, and of the Interior, Laurent Nunez, assert that "clearly the extreme left" killed the young man.
When contacted by JMH, the Lyon magistrate in charge of the case declined to comment.

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