Killing of nationalist student leaves French far left in deep trouble as elections loom (www.bbc.com)
from Valnao@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 20:06
https://sh.itjust.works/post/55908675

People are comparing it to the killing of Charlie Kirk.

No. This is actually a lot worse. Several staffers of a political party were arrested for murder.

Just imagine what would happen if Democratic Party employees were arrested for killing Charlie Kirk

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Witchfire@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 20:11 next collapse

J’ai une question pour les françaises. C’est vraiment “far left” ou est-ce que c’est comme aux États-Unis où le “gauche” n’existe pas?

(Pardon mon français)

kalmosUnlisted644@jlai.lu on 25 Feb 20:35 collapse

LFI is considered “radical left” or “extrème gauche” in French. Mélanchon openly speaks about having a revolution “via the ballots as well as via the street”.

kronarbob@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 23:19 collapse

"Extrême gauche " means “far left”. Which is not the same as radical.

Far left is against capitalism and believe than the revolution is not possible by voting.

LFI is not considered as far left by the real far left parties. They do not consider themselves as so.

The only parties that call them “far left” are the ones trying to discredit them to people that are afraid of far left.

NomNom@feddit.uk on 25 Feb 23:55 collapse

Far left is against capitalism

And you think LFI is favorable to capitalism?

Mélenchon, the leader of LFI:

“Capitalism is a system that is obsolete. Social democracy is outdated”

melenchon.fr/…/le-capitalisme-est-depasse-la-soci…

LFI is not considered as far left by the real far left parties

The leaders of the Anti-Capitalist Party said they would vote for the leader of LFI;

lexpress.fr/…/des-dirigeants-du-npa-votent-melenc…

mediapart.fr/…/des-dirigeants-du-npa-appellent-vo…

Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works on 25 Feb 20:33 next collapse

The guy was proving security for a feminist rally, and was beaten to death.

Yeah, this is something that could and should be the end of a political party.

kronarbob@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 23:07 collapse

This Guy shouldn’t have died and the people that killed him must be punished.

This said : he was part of a neo fascist group that commit violent acts (either racists or homophobic)… And as it was recently revealed : the so called feminist group is used to be a bait to attract anti fascist groups. Then their so so called security group just appear and beat the antifa.

Adding that nemesis (the so called feminist group) is nothing more than a fascist group that plays the victims while supporting racism and remigration. If nemesis was rallying it was because they wanted to disturb a political meeting, claiming that it was a islamic-lefty speech.

Again, this man should not have been beaten to death. The fact that it happened is not a surprise. This time it was him, regarding the alarming situation Lyon (the city where it happened) is, it could have been somebody else during the fight, or any other event.

I’m not legitimasing a murder in any way. I’m just trying to explain the situation that is more complicated than what most articles say. It is the results of more than a decade of inactions from governements that allowed the violence to grow. And now everybody seems surprise of the consequences.

LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net on 25 Feb 20:52 next collapse

But I thought a few murders was all that was holding us back from a spontaneous revolution? /s

TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website on 26 Feb 00:14 collapse

This is bullshit there’s many report that disprove the narrative of the right. He and his friends assault an outnumbered group, he was offer many time help and refuse any. He put himself in this situation