A-Infos (en) France, Monde Libertaire - The far right is on the loose! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

In this statement, the Anarchist Federation addresses the events 
surrounding the death of the neo-fascist activist in Lyon, the media 
coverage that has saturated all channels, and the demonization of 
anti-fascists and all those who oppose the country's extreme rightward 
shift. First of all, let's be clear: no one deserves to die like that on 
a sidewalk. Nor does anyone want to be attacked by an armed group that 
came to fight with the aim of "riding Lyon of foreigners and leftists." 
Q. Deranque and the far-right activists knew they were heading for a 
confrontation. His death was neither a premeditated murder nor an 
ambush, as the media have hammered home. The facts are that two groups 
made contact, and after a few minutes, one of them lost and abandoned 
several of its members.

According to Nemesis, the fascists, acting like knights, came to 
"protect" the women in their group who had come to stage a protest. This 
is a typical strategy of this femonationalist group, which attributes 
sexist violence not to the patriarchy but to foreigners. Their usual 
tactics: to provoke a conflict, create a publicity stunt, hide behind a 
team of "muscle" to provide "security," and then exploit the situation.

Thus, while Quesin Deranque was still in a coma, their leader, Alice 
Cordier, was invited onto CNews and other media outlets, which rushed to 
publish contradictory accounts without any fact-checking, including one 
about an imaginary stabbing. This media frenzy would not have been 
possible without the Bolloré empire, which participates in the attempt 
to normalize the far right. The treatment by these media outlets is 
comparable to that given to a victim of a racist crime or police 
killing: digging into their criminal record, discrediting them, smearing 
them.

With this death, the far right has finally found its martyr, allowing it 
to call for violence against antifascists or, through biased attacks, 
against La France Insoumise (LFI). Fascists will attempt to manipulate 
social media by generating an AI-generated image of Q. Deranque, or by 
shamelessly using the face of a living person to illustrate the death of 
the neo-Nazi activist. Their narrative is quickly contradicted by images 
showing the infamous "traditionalist militants providing security," 
masked, crutched, and armed with tear gas, in the thick of the fray.

The Anarchist Federation denounces the criminalization of antifascism, 
which is merely a response, because it is the far right that wants a 
civil war; they themselves claim this.

The Anarchist Federation denounces the demonization that portrays Lyon's 
identitarian and neo-Nazi groups as the good guys, when in fact they 
have been escalating their attacks and assaults for years.

Faced with the far right and its political agenda, and with an 
increasingly authoritarian society (militarization of youth, police 
surveillance, state violence), the Anarchist Federation's struggle is 
situated on social and ideological ground. While we are repelled by the 
virile cult of violence espoused by fascist groups, our popular 
self-defense becomes legitimate in the face of these physical attacks.

Let us stand in solidarity and act against those who offer only ethnic 
and social racism! To hatred of others, to violence, and to social 
destruction, let us oppose antifascism and class solidarity!

Francophone Anarchist Federation,
February 26, 2026

https://monde-libertaire.net/?articlen=8862
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