Overview
- French diplomatic sources said Ambassador Charles Kushner failed to appear at the foreign ministry on Monday and is now blocked from direct meetings with government members.
- Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot had summoned Kushner to protest U.S. State Department and embassy posts linking Quentin Deranque’s death to rising violent radical leftism.
- U.S. messages on X from the State Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau, echoed by the embassy, said left‑wing militants were implicated and warned of a growing public‑safety threat.
- Prosecutors in Lyon have opened a homicide case with multiple arrests and preliminary charges, including against a parliamentary aide linked to La France Insoumise.
- About 3,000 people marched in Lyon under heavy police presence as President Emmanuel Macron urged calm, and Barrot said he would also raise U.S. sanctions on Thierry Breton and ICC judge Nicolas Guillou.