Overview
- Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Charles Kushner will be denied meetings with government ministers until he appears to provide explanations after skipping a Quai d’Orsay summons.
- Paris objects to a U.S. State Department counterterrorism post that highlighted rising “radical left” violence and tied it to Quentin Deranque’s death, which the U.S. Embassy reposted in French.
- Deranque, a 23-year-old far-right activist, died from brain injuries after a Feb. 12 beating in Lyon, and police have identified at least nine suspects linked to an ultra-left movement.
- Authorities announced legal steps over suspected reconstitution of the dissolved group La Jeune Garde and initiated dissolution proceedings against several local cells, with scrutiny also reaching previously banned far-right associations.
- Barrot said the ambassador’s access could be restored once explanations are given, noting Kushner was similarly summoned last August over a letter to President Emmanuel Macron on antisemitism.