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Imagine if a mob of neo-Nazis lynched a prominent left-wing student on campus. The media would go into meltdown, with wall-to-wall coverage for months. Likely, cities would burn in weeks of left-wing violence – oops, ‘fiery, but mostly peaceful protests’. Yet, when a far-left mob lynched a conservative student activist in France last week, the media’s response has been to all but bury the story. When absolutely forced to report on it, they reflexively smear the innocent dead.
Amazingly, of all outlets, the BBC provided the most balanced coverage.
France’s radical left is under pressure after the killing of a student in Lyon was blamed on “anti-fascist” militants.
Quentin Deranque, a 23-year-old maths student and nationalist activist, died on Saturday, two days after being beaten up on the street by a group of young men.
State prosecutor Thierry Dran told a news conference on Monday afternoon in Lyon that a murder investigation has been opened into the death.
He said that Deranque was kicked and punched by “at least six” individuals, and that the autopsy showed fatal damage to his skull and brain.
But this is the BBC… of course they can’t help but throw in their reflexive epithets.
On Thursday afternoon Deranque had given support to a hard-right feminist collective Némésis, which staged a small protest against a left-wing politician’s visit to Lyon’s Institute of Political Studies (IEP), commonly known as Sciences-Po.
Just a ‘left-wing politician’, eh?
In fact, Rima Hassan is a ‘Palestinian’ activist who openly praises Hamas and has defended the October 7 massacres. She was also part of Greta Thunberg’s Hamas-run “Freedom Flotilla” and a virulent denier of rising anti-Semitic violence in Europe.
Just a little context the Beeb could have provided.
Some more context that the BBC buried deep in the story is that the lynch mob is connected directly to a far-left political party that sits in the EU parliament, of which Hassan is a deputy, and a banned left-wing paramilitary group.
In a tense political atmosphere ahead of important municipal elections next month, all eyes on Monday were on the radical left party France Unbowed (LFI) and a banned security outfit La Jeune Garde (Young Guard) that in the past helped provide protection at its rallies […]
Hassan on Friday condemned the incident and called for an investigation. In a post on X, she said LFI provided the only security protection for her during the visit and that they were “in no way” involved in the violence.
Which is, in fact, a lie.
Nine people have been arrested in France after a right-wing student was beaten to death by a group of masked men […]
One of the arrestees is Jacques-Elie Favrot, a parliamentary assistant for a deputy from the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party, led by Jean-Luc Melenchon.
The deputy in question is Raphaël Arnault, who co-founded the now-banned Jeune Garde.
So, a lynching connected directly to elected members of the EU parliament who are also connected to banned paramilitary groups. If this was the right, the media would be fainting and screaming to raise the roof.
The victim, Quentin Deranque, was there to support a feminist group, Némésis, which fights violence against Western women.
Quentin Deranque was described by those close to him as a devout, calm and hardworking student, a young man committed to helping the poor, unsuspected of being radical […]
According to those close to him, Deranque, a data science student at Lyon-II University, was, above all, a parishioner with a passion for philosophy and ethics and the conviction of a missionary. He was a regular at the Saint-Georges church, a traditionalist congregation in Lyon’s medieval district, where Mass is celebrated in Latin. He converted “a few years ago,” according to his friend Vincent, who praised “his moral and spiritual virtues” on the far-right Radio Courtoisie station.
“He read a lot of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Augustine,” Vincent added, depicting Deranque as a bookworm rather than a “black rat,” the nickname given to violent activists of the far-right student group GUD. Yet the young man’s radical political views shone through in Vincent’s later words: “He was a normal young man who had reconnected with his roots. Who loved his country, his people, his civilization, his religion. Quentin belongs to legend, he is already a hero and a martyr.”
Patriotic, devout, a thinker? Everything the left hates with a passion.
