PARIS: Eleven people including an aide to a French far-left lawmaker were arrested in France overnight and early on Wednesday on suspicion of involvement in the killing of a far-right activist. Shortly after the announcement, the Paris headquarters of the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party received a bomb threat and had to be evacuated until the all-clear was given when police secured the scene.

A parliamentary aide from the radical-left party La France Insoumise was among those arrested over the fatal beating of Quentin Deranque, a 23-year-old far-right activist.

Quentin Deranque died on Saturday, two days after being beaten in Lyon by masked men believed to be far-left militants.