Belmont Club: The Face Beneath the Mask

<![CDATA[One of the reasons the Quentin Derananque murder is so sensitive in France is that the U.S. ambassador was actually summoned to the foreign office for commenting on it because it potentially exposes the semi-official status of political street gangs in a country that likes to think of itself as tolerant. After Deranque, a conservative activist (always referred to as extreme right-wing by the media), was killed in Lyon in what was apparently an organized attack, his death became a kind of litmus test for French political commentary. You can’t mention it without taking a position.]]>