Overview
- Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Ambassador Charles Kushner will be called in after the U.S. Embassy and State Department weighed in on the killing of Quentin Deranque.
- The State Department’s counterterrorism bureau warned on X that violent radical leftism is on the rise, and Under Secretary Sarah B. Rogers linked the case to political violence.
- Prosecutors have issued preliminary charges for seven suspects in the Lyon attack, with counts including intentional homicide, aggravated violence and criminal conspiracy.
- Roughly 3,000 people marched in Lyon to honor Deranque as President Emmanuel Macron urged calm during heightened political tensions.
- Barrot said he will also challenge U.S. sanctions on former EU commissioner Thierry Breton and ICC judge Nicolas Guillou during talks with the ambassador.