Overview
- Mediapart attributes three X accounts to Deranque and cites thousands of posts from 2023–2025 that glorify fascism, praise Hitler and use explicit racist and antisemitic slurs.
- The revelations have renewed discomfort over the National Assembly’s February tribute, with President Yaël Braun-Pivet saying she is shocked yet stressing the decision reflected rejection of violence.
- The criminal inquiry into Deranque’s death continues, with nine suspects charged and held in pretrial detention, according to the Lyon prosecutor.
- The family’s lawyer says the messages, if authenticated, are condemnable but argues they cannot justify what he calls a lynching to death.
- While some far-right accounts dispute the attribution, a person close to Deranque anonymously confirmed to Le Figaro that he authored the posts.