BBC Brands Slain French Student ‘Far-Right’ After Brutal Beating by Suspected Leftists
“Beaten to death by a baying mob. Punched and kicked until his body and head were smashed in by a large group of FAR-LEFT psychopaths with the smell of blood in their nostrils.”
Quentin Deranque, a 23-year-old French student, died on Saturday from injuries sustained two days earlier when he was brutally beaten and “kicked about the head” by a group of masked attackers in Lyon. The BBC headline read, “Nine arrested in France over death of far-right student.” The opening sentence describes Deranque as a “far-right nationalist.”
According to the BBC, the far-left suspected militants carried out the assault following a small protest by “far-right feminists” — whom Deranque was reportedly helping to protect — at the city’s Institute of Political Studies (IEP), commonly known as Sciences Po. The protest took place on the sidelines of a conference featuring Rima Hassan, a member of the European Parliament representing the hard-left party France Unbowed (LFI).
On Wednesday, nine young men were arrested in connection with the killing, including a parliamentary assistant to a deputy from France Unbowed. The BBC reported that the suspects are far-left militants allegedly linked to the banned group La Jeune Garde (Young Guard).
The killing has placed significant pressure on LFI, its 70 members of parliament, and its veteran leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, “a likely contender in next year’s presidential election,” as per the BBC.
On Sunday, Mélenchon said his party had “nothing to do with this story.” He added, “Those who accuse us are committing libel.
“We express our consternation, but also our empathy and compassion for Deranque’s family and friends. We have said dozens of times that we oppose all forms of violence.”
A subsequent report indicated that two additional arrests were made in the case, including a second parliamentary aide affiliated with the LFI party.
The BBC’s far-left political bias is common knowledge.
[Several months ago, the network faced intense scrutiny when its “deceptive editing” of President Trump’s January 6, 2021, speech to supporters was exposed, fueling accusations of blatant bias.]
The network faced immediate backlash from conservatives for minimizing Deranque’s savage murder as a “death” in the headline and for labeling him as “far-right” in both the headline and the first sentence.
Was the BBC implying that because the victim was “far-right,” his murder was somehow justified? Well, one would be forgiven for drawing that conclusion.
Historian and commentator Dr. Philip Kiszely noted on X that Deranque was actually “lynched.” He wrote:
Beaten to death by a baying mob. Punched and kicked until his body and head were smashed in by a large group of FAR-LEFT psychopaths with the smell of blood in their nostrils. Murdered for standing up to misogynistic lunatics. ‘Far-right?’
He summed up by calling the BBC an “utter disgrace of a captured corporation.”
He was lynched.
Beaten to death by a baying mob.
Punched and kicked until his body and head were smashed in by a large group of FAR-LEFT psychopaths with the smell of blood in their nostrils.
Murdered for standing up to misogynistic lunatics.
‘Far-right?’ You utter disgrace… https://t.co/WqrPBh2hi5
— Dr Philip Kiszely (@KiszelyPhilip) February 18, 2026
Kiszely’s take, of course, was entirely accurate as many readers pointed out:
— NothingsMakingAnySenseNow. (@sonicboomer0011) February 18, 2026
They attacked first, you are just a lying manipulative trashpic.twitter.com/UMDIrOf8oW
— TSN (@TSN_Mad) February 19, 2026
One X user came to the BBC’s defense and posted what they claimed to be a photo of Deranque wearing a jacket with a Nazi patch on the sleeve.
The poor angel 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/WNJcvIiyuU
— Big Chief SMASH (@JayJayBoogers) February 18, 2026
However, a reader’s note attached to the post indicated that “the man in this image is not Quentin Deranque as is widely misreported.” The note included a link to the original article.
Meanwhile, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned the murder in a statement on X. She emphasized the “ideological hatred” behind the attack, calling it “a wound to the whole of Europe.”
The killing of the young Quentin Deranque in France is an event that deeply shocks and grieves us.
The death of a boy just over twenty years old, attacked by groups linked to left-wing extremism and overwhelmed by a climate of ideological hatred that is sweeping across several nations, is a wound to the whole of Europe.
No political idea, no ideological opposition can justify violence or turn debate into physical aggression. When hatred and violence take the place of dialogue, it is always democracy that loses.
L’uccisione del giovane Quentin Deranque in Francia è un fatto che sconvolge e addolora profondamente.
La morte di un ragazzo poco più che ventenne, aggredito da gruppi riconducibili all’estremismo di sinistra e travolto da un clima di odio ideologico che attraversa diverse… pic.twitter.com/F7vzDhT9X8— Giorgia Meloni (@GiorgiaMeloni) February 18, 2026
During an official visit to India on Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron called on Meloni to stop “commenting on what is happening in other people’s countries.” He said, “Let everyone stay in their own lane.”
Like it or not, a young conservative student was beaten to death by a gang of far-left militants because of his political beliefs. And despite persistent claims that political violence is a problem “on both sides,” the record shows that the lion’s share of it is driven by one side.
The BBC’s coverage of this story implies that not all murders carry the same moral weight. When the victim is branded “far-right,” outrage seems to soften, and clarity gives way to equivocation.
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Will any of those arrested for this murder ever be convicted of anything? And if so, will they ever serve any jail time? No and no.
I hope that you are wrong !
Far left or far right, he ended up middle of the road.
These marxist meat puppets don’t kill you because you’re a Nazi. They call you a Nazi so they can justify killing you.
Political violence is a left-wing phenomenon. See: Kaiser’s Maxim
Not always. In Europe it’s historically been about even. In the USA it’s overwhelmingly a left-wing phenomenon, but not entirely.
Fascist v Nazis, for one example, is hardly a two-sided fight. More often than not, political violence is between two like-minded groups fighting over turf and attempting to draw supporters of the other group to their own. Note I used the word “group” and not “side.” When Hitler launched the Nazi party, many came over from the communist party, not because they “switched sides” from Left to Right, but rather they switched from Soviet-dominated international communism to German national socialism because Hitler provided a home for like-minded people who preferred not to have the Soviet Union interfering with German internal affairs.
The terms “right” and “left” change meaning over time and place. In the 1930s, the Nazi Party was on what was then known in Europe as the right.
Stalin labeled Nazis “right wing.” It was a convenient half-truth. For Stalin, anyone not a commie was “right wing.” It was convenient because it allowed Stalin’s WWII allies to create the fiction (for public consumption and support for the war) that Stalin and Hitler were opposites. (Avoiding questions like “If Nazis are bad and Stalin is a kissing cousin of Hitler, how is it he’s our ally? Shouldn’t we let them fight it out?”) “Right wing” Nazis was never true. Hell, “socialist” is in the party’s name. (Something I’m sure you know full-well.) When were socialists ever considered “right wing”?
Nazi Workers’ Day badge 1934:
https://www.numiscorner.com/cdn/shop/products/1703A_d931ca5c-2cd8-4662-865a-a1c6839796b3.jpg
Do you think they were trying to fool people with this iconography?
BTW, the 1936 version of the badge has a plow, a hammer, and a sword (indicative of the growing nakedness of German rearmament) along with the adler.
But today, the Hiterites would clearly be on the left, as would the Stalinists.
Not to mention history’s communists, socialists, antisemites, general racists and economic idiots.
But to the BBC, “far right” implies justification.
No, it was not Stalin who labeled them right-wing. Everyone did so, including themselves.
Orwell regarded both Hitler and Stalin as right-wing.
^^^^someone else gets it!!!^^^^
My understanding of this is that Stalin slandered Hitler by essentially calling him a right winger because Hitler was slightly to the right of Stalin. But even if a popular slander by the Left of that time was to label someone “right wing”, being slightly to the right of Stalin cannot make anyone “right-wing.” Is this incorrect?
No, by the standards and definitions of the time, Hitler was right-wing. Literally everyone at the time agreed on that.
Orwell noted that Stalin was assisting Franco, just as Hitler was, and so he called them both right-wing.
By the definitions used in the USA today, both were left-wing.
Oh yeah? When is he going to stop commenting on anything that happens in the USA or in Israel?
Unintentional nationalism from Macron?
He’s occupying a very wide lane.
Beat me to it. This loudmouth has spent more time out of his lane than fixing the broken bs in his effed up country of snobby weirdos and Muslim terrorists.
That was my thought exactly when I read the story. Macron and has been an enabler of this kind of political violence. Where is the EU? Why aren’t they condemning the violation of this young man’s civil/human rights? Those uninformed EU politicians have no problem spewing hate towards America and President Trump. Encouraging leftists to go after conservatives everywhere. I love the French people. I hate Macron and his EU buddies.
“Cheese eating surrender monkeys” has to be updated. Maybe “burkha boosting, sharia sucking surrender monkeys?
A couple of centuries of building up high-trust, rule-of-law societies is going up in smoke before our very eyes.
A sword age,
A wolf age,
No longer is their mercy among men.
Ragnarok.
I have long prayed that God would not enter into such a (fearsome tmeporal) judgment with His servants. But God has the right to say “no” or “wait” (hopefully) to me.
Britainistan Broadcasting Corpse, the remains of the BBC.
BBC was always like this.
This was the deliberate MURDER of a young man, and every single one of those monsters that participated in this horrendous crime should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law !
so in france that would be 3 days ,,maybe,,, in prison for dirtying up the streets
the leftists are macron
They are being prosecuted. By France, no less.
lefty says patriots of their own country are the terrorists
we arent going to win debating these sacks o sh