French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday, February 14, urged calm and restraint after the fatal beating of a 23-year-old French youth aligned with the far-right on the sidelines of a conference by a hard-left lawmaker in the southeastern city of Lyon.
The death of the young man – identified only as Quentin – has intensified tensions between France’s far-right and radical left who are both eyeing 2027 presidential elections.
He had been hospitalized in Lyon on Thursday after being attacked while providing what his supporters said was security for a protest against an appearance by hard-left MEP Rima Hassan at the Lyon branch of the Sciences Po university.
Since when did European media start using Trumps term ‘radical-left’ ?
There is no such thing, this is pure framing by the alt-right!
Trump calls everyone from AOC to Angela Merkel radical leftists.
Spaniard here: Podemos, a prominent leftist party that appeared in the 2010s as third political force, was categorized as radical since its inception by mainstream media. The party has almost disappeared now, mainly due to a plot by the state police and private media in which the police fabricated false investigations of funding by Venezuela and Iran (wonder why these two are always used as dogwhistles) and leaked them to the media to make a huge campaign of lawfare and manufacturing of public mistrust.
He calls biden and kamala radical left, it’s a meaningless term like anti semite, no accusation can be taken at face value.
The term alt-right is problematic too. I think you meant neo-nazis or just nazis
Fascist. The term you’re looking for is fascist.
I despise Trump’s propaganda as much as anyone here, but LFI (the party of the mentioned lawmaker) call themselves “radical left”.
We shouldn’t let Trump turn this expression into an insult.
There damn well IS a such thing, I’m a radical leftist anarchist specifically. But you’re right in that regular liberals like AOC are not. “Radical” just means outside of mainstream political thought.
France has been doing that for LFI for a few years, with Macron pushing Le Pen. Right wing media (most of them) have religiously followed suit, calling them radicals and extremists.