LYON: French police will be out in force at a weekend rally for a slain far-right activist, the interior minister said Friday, as the country seeks to contain anger over the fatal beating blamed on the hard left. Quentin Deranque, 23, died from head injuries after being attacked by at least six people on the sidelines of a protest against a politician from the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party in the southeastern city of Lyon last week.

The 23-year-old activist, who died on Saturday, February 14, after a fight in the streets of Lyon, was an integralist Catholic drawn to the idea of 'self-defense' who embodied the…

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.