The U.S. embassy didn’t instantly reply to POLITICO’s request for remark.
Kushner discovered himself in scorching water with French authorities over posts on X by the US authorities weighing in on the loss of life of 23-year-old Quentin Deranque, who was killed earlier this month in a struggle on the sidelines of a political convention in Lyon. Individuals affiliated with ultra-left teams have since been positioned underneath investigation in relation to the incident.
The X account of the U.S. Embassy in France on Friday translated and reposted a press release from the U.S. State Division’s counterterrorism bureau to the impact that: “Violent radical leftism is on the rise, and its function in Quentin Deranque’s loss of life demonstrates the risk it poses to public security.”
Barrot stated in a Sunday radio interview that France wouldn’t “permit this tragedy to be exploited for political ends.”
“We’ve no classes to study, notably in the case of violence, from worldwide reactionary [forces],” he added.
Kushner, the daddy of U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and diplomatic envoy Jared Kushner, was additionally summoned final yr after writing in the Wall Street Journal that France was not doing sufficient to fight antisemitism.
“I’m right here to do a job,” Kushner stated in an interview with French broadcaster LCI after his first summons. “If President Trump needed to choose the perfect diplomat to go to France, he made the mistaken alternative, I’m not the perfect.”
