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 shift to the far right. ---- 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, "protected" 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 whole situation.
Thus, while Quesam 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, by association, 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 activists 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, as it is the far right that wants a civil war, a goal they themselves claim.
The Anarchist Federation denounces this demonization, which portrays Lyon's identitarian and neo-Nazi groups as the good guys, when in fact they have been carrying out numerous 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://federation-anarchiste.org/?g=Lien_Permanent&b=1_274
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Link: (en) France, FA: The far right is on the loose (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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