Killing of nationalist student leaves French far left in deep trouble as elections loom

Raluca Maniță

Is the far left about to replace the far right as the pariah of French politics? The question is inescapable following the killing in Lyon of nationalist student Quentin Deranque by suspected far-left militants. Deranque was killed on 12 February after a small university protest by far-right feminists, who he was supposed to be protecting. Mobile phone footage shows him being repeatedly kicked and punched on the ground by masked and hooded young men. He died of head injuries. Since then a