France to summon US ambassador over comments on Deranque's death

The French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, has said he will summon Charles Kushner, the US ambassador to France, over comments related to the killing of the French far-right activist Quentin Deranque.

Official US social media accounts posted about a rise of "violent radical leftism" after the killing, a development that prompted the move to summon the ambassador.

Deranque was beaten to death in Lyon last week during a fight with alleged hard-left activists.

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