Overview
- Thousands marched in Lyon under a large police deployment, with drones and gendarmes on standby, after the interior minister allowed the tribute to go ahead despite the mayor’s request for a ban.
- Investigators have detained 11 people, prosecutors said seven will face murder-related charges, and authorities now report six men charged with homicide plus a parliamentary assistant charged with complicity.
- Lyon prosecutor Thierry Dran identified the aide as Jacques‑Elie Favrot, who was placed in pre‑trial detention and denies delivering the fatal blows while acknowledging his presence and some violence.
- Macron called for calm, said there is no place for militias, and announced a government meeting next week to take stock of violent action groups linked to political movements.
- The case fueled a dispute with Italy after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called the death a European ‘wound,’ drawing a public rebuke from Macron, as the U.S. State Department’s counterterrorism office warned of rising violent radical leftism and a senior official labeled the killing terrorism.