Macron criticizes Meloni’s comments after the death of a right-wing activist

The violent death of a young right-wing extremist in France has led to an unusual Franco-Italian exchange of blows. French President Emmanuel Macron indirectly accused Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of unwanted interference“I’m always amazed to see that people who are nationalistic and don’t want to be talked into are always the first to comment on what’s happening with others,” Macron said on Thursday on the sidelines of his trip to India. It would be better if everyone minded their own business, he added.

After the death of 23-year-old Quentin Deranque in a violent clash between right-wing and left-wing extremist activists in Lyon, Meloni spoke of a “climate of ideological hatred” that she believed was spreading in several nations. The case was “a wound for Europe,” she wrote on the online service X.

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani later tried to sound conciliatory. The young man’s death was an event “that concerns everyone,” he noted on the online service X. “There were also many Quentins in Italy,” wrote Tajani. Condemning such acts should also “prevent us in Italy from falling back into a bad past,” he wrote.

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