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The Rhône prefecture announced this Friday, February 20, that it had authorized this tribute to the nationalist activist planned for Saturday in Lyon and supported by the ultra-right, “in the search for a balance between freedom of expression and prevention of disturbances to public order.”
Numerous far-right identity and royalist posters, bearing the inscription “QUENTIN KILLED BY MELENCHON’S MILICE”, are stuck on a street wall in Lyon, France, on February 19, 2026, after the death of Quentin Deranque, far-right identity and nationalist activist, in Lyon. | MATTHIEU DELATY / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP
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Numerous far-right identity and royalist posters, bearing the inscription “QUENTIN KILLED BY MELENCHON’S MILICE”, are stuck on a street wall in Lyon, France, on February 19, 2026, after the death of Quentin Deranque, far-right identity and nationalist activist, in Lyon. | MATTHIEU DELATY / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP
Published on 02/20/2026 at 2:27 p.m.
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A walk under high security. The rally planned for Saturday in Lyon, in tribute to nationalist activist Quentin Deranque, declared dead on February 14, after being attacked two days earlier on the sidelines of a conference by LFI (La France insoumise) MP Rima Hassan, will take place. This march supported by the ultra-right is authorized, announces the Rhône prefecture, this Friday February 20, 2026, but it will be supervised by a reinforced police force at a “high level”.
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