Searchlight: The French far right and the martyrdom of a nazi street thug

https://searchlightmagazine.com/2026/03/the-french-far-right-and-the-martyrdom-of-a-nazi-street-thug/

When Quentin Deranque died on 14 February, two days after suffering catastrophic head injuries in a street fight in Lyon, something else died alongside him: any honest account of who he actually was, or how he came to die. Within hours, the European far right had a martyr. Within days, it had constructed a