France opens homicide probe as killing of far-right activist stokes tensions

French authorities have opened a homicide probe into the dying of a far-right activist final week, a public prosecutor mentioned Monday, in a killing the federal government has blamed partly on the laborious left. Quentin Deranque, 23, died after sustaining a extreme mind damage when he was attacked Thursday by “a minimum of six” folks on the sidelines of a far-right protest towards a left-wing politician talking at a college in Lyon. FRANCE 24’s Carys Garland studies.