We are Quentin - A right-wing activist killed by the far left.
Everything you need to know.
I. The facts : a lynching on the sidelines of a controversial conference
On Thursday, February 12, 2026, around 6 p.m. in Lyon, LFI MEP Rima Hassan—a prominent pro-Palestinian figure—gave a conference on EU–Middle East relations. The Némésis collective had organized a peaceful protest: a few of their activists unfurled a banner reading “Get out, Islamo-leftists.”
Quentin, 23, a mathematics student with no criminal record, was there to support Némésis’s action—not as an official “security agent,” according to his family and his lawyer Me Fabien Rajon, but simply to defend his convictions peacefully. A close friend, Baptiste, told Frontières : “Every week he’d go out to bring food and some human warmth to the homeless on the streets of Lyon. Quentin was genuinely virtuous, a very noble soul, a true Frenchman.” He added: “What drove him every day was his faith and his desire to serve. He came to help those brave young women from Némésis. On the other side, the Antifa mob was clearly looking for a fight.”
Five young women from Némésis were assaulted by far-left militants near the event. At the same time, others were being chased by around thirty Antifas. Between 6:30 and 6:40 p.m., on Rue Victor-Lagrange (about 500 m away), Quentin found himself isolated, thrown to the ground, and lynched with kicks to the head by a gang of hooded militants wearing reinforced gloves. He was rushed to hospital with severe brain injuries and placed in an induced coma. Amateur footage shows about twenty people in the street, a motionless man on the pavement, and an outburst of pure hatred and violence. The far-left militants kept beating the unconscious man lying on the ground.
On Saturday, February 14, his death was confirmed. An investigation was opened for “aggravated fatal blows” (in a group, with a weapon, faces concealed). On site, Némésis and several activists reported the presence of Jacques-Elie Favrot, parliamentary assistant to LFI MP Raphaël Arnault and spokesperson for the “La Jeune Garde” group, dissolved in 2025. According to a witness to the lynching, this assistant was identified as responsible and described as the ringleader of the attack, reportedly urging the militants on with words like: “Come on guys, let’s kick their asses.” Also mentioned are Adrian Besseyre, a highly active member of La Jeune Garde Lyon who reportedly did an internship at the National Assembly with Raphaël Arnault, and Lelio Le Besson, a member of La Jeune Garde Lyon’s security detail. For his part, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has called this violence-dissolved movement an “ally.” La Jeune Garde’s security service is said to have been regularly used by LFI, including at this Rima Hassan conference.
In their second statement on February 14, the family denounced an organized gang murder, a premeditated ambush. The video makes it clear: scouting, accomplices, numerical superiority, masks, relentless blows on an immobile body. The family stressed that Quentin “defended his convictions without violence.”
The judicial case is extremely sensitive and could reach certain MPs for possible incitement or complicity (Art. 23 of the 1881 Press Law). A criminal investigation must be opened swiftly against far-left MPs. This type of murder can carry life imprisonment when committed by several people acting as an organized gang (Article 221-4 of the Penal Code).
Part of the radical left is downplaying this assassination, relativizing it by pointing out that Quentin was “far-right,” a “Nazi.” Blast journalist Camille Stineau declared: “You institutional left parties are perfectly happy to have Antifas around your events to protect you from the fascists. But the day the fight gets a bit too rough and a Nazi dies, you throw the Antifas under the bus? Go fuck yourselves.” Blast received €316,000 in public funding in 2024. On social media, many—often anonymous—accounts have celebrated this assassination. Moderate left and centrist figures have condemned the tragedy without explicitly naming those responsible. Several posted their messages with comments disabled or limited. Commentators also recall that Emmanuel Macron backed Raphaël Arnault’s candidacy against the National Rally to “fight the far right.” They further point out that during the campaign in the relevant constituency, the RN had sidelined several activists deemed “too” radical by its leadership.
II. Analysis : a tragedy that exposes unpunished far-left terrorism
Far-left violence is not a marginal phenomenon. This tragedy is not isolated; it lays bare a serious political problem that can no longer be brushed aside. The entire history of the far left can be summed up here: hit those weaker than you, in numbers, prepared and armed. According to the Observatory of Political Violence, far-left violence in France rose 68% between 2024 and 2025. In 2013 the entire political class immediately condemned Clément Méric’s death, with the institutional right once again showing particular zeal—even though Clément Méric had attacked a right-wing activist. What about today for the nationalist militant murdered by Antifas?
For years, whistleblowers have been warning about far-left terrorism. These warnings go unheeded, and now we have this tragedy. It will keep happening until the antifascist movement is treated as terrorist. La France Insoumise and the entire left legitimize this violence and bear moral responsibility for this assassination as well as for the many other attacks on innocents. Many right-wing MPs ignore warnings from their activist base; some even despise them, and others support repression against our political groups in order to “de-demonize” themselves. The authorities do nothing to correct this grave democratic failure or to protect innocent activists.
Today we are paying the heaviest price. Quentin is dead. Quentin was innocent. A Catholic who converted his father—former Action Française activist, France’s oldest political formation—and sympathizer of Academia Christiana, a Catholic training institute, he had committed himself to the common good. Quentin came to defend the women of Némésis. To defend their freedom of expression, their right to demonstrate against a conference by the Islamo-leftist Rima Hassan, a symbol of anti-white hatred sitting in the European Parliament. Némésis activists face violence from left-wing men at every action: insults, death threats, beatings, strangling. Quentin wanted to say no to this violence at his own level. More broadly, for years across Europe the far left has been smashing, beating and killing—with the tacit or open support of the entire left. We saw it with Maja and the left’s backing in the European Parliament.
Right-wing activists bear no moral responsibility for the violence they face alone. They are in a permanent state of legitimate self-defense against unchecked, uncontrolled violence. Quentin died for who he was, for what we represent: the fight against mass immigration, against wokism, love of family and love of our land. We carry the torch and we will keep watch over our own, as Quentin did. In the face of intimidation and complicit silence, we choose loyalty and solidarity among Europeans who refuse to vanish into indifference.
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