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‘Red Line Crossed': Bardella Warns French Democracy at a ‘Tipping Point' After Alleged Antifa Killing of Conservative Student

2026-02-20

[Breitbart] The French political and media establishment are complicit in the violence of the far-left, National Rally president Jordan Bardella said in response to the alleged Antifa mob killing of a 23-year-old conservative university student in Lyon last week.

At least 11 people have been arrested so far in connection with the death of Quentin Déranque, who was seen being beaten on the ground by alleged far-left activists on the sidelines of a protest at the Sciences Po university in Lyon last Thursday. Déranque suffered catastrophic brain injuries as a result and died in hospital on Saturday.

Among those arrested are two parliamentary assistants to MP Raphaël Arnault, the founder of the Young Guard Antifa cell in Lyon

..I had been assuming, but it’s nice to have it confirmed…

and a member of the far-left La France Insoumise (LFI/France in Rebellion) party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Multiple suspects are said to have been members of the Antifa cell, despite the government supposedly banning the group last year. Arnault and his two (now former) parliamentary assistants were all reportedly known to police and on extremist watch lists for their roles with Antifa, according to Le Figaro.

While much of the attention has been focused on Mélenchon’s party and their alleged connections to the killing, National Rally leader Jordan Bardella said on Wednesday that the Paris establishment is also to blame, accusing the mainstream media and Macronist politicians of failing to reckon with the dangers posed by the far-left.

“This is the result of a climate of violence, meticulously established for years by a segment of the left whose verbal excesses and strategy of perpetual chaos are now fuelling physical violence in our streets,” the MEP said,

“If the far left killed this weekend, it’s primarily because it benefits from media complicity and a certificate of immunity granted by the political class,” he said.

Bardella specifically pointed to former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who, alongside President Macron, entered into a controversial electoral pact with the leftist New Popular Front (NPF), which included the LFI, during the 2024 elections as a cynical ploy to prevent the National Rally from taking control of parliament. Bardella noted that campaign leaflets for the NPF included the logo of the Young Guard Antifa cell implicated in the killing of Quentin.

“The Macron supporters who called for voting for LFI in the most recent legislative elections all bear heavy responsibility. In dozens of constituencies, they deliberately opened the doors of the National Assembly to the worst thugs of the far left,” he said.

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