People attend a march in Lyon, France, on Saturday in tribute to late far-right sympathizer Quentin Deranque. Hours before the gathering, French President Emmanuel Macron had urged “everyone to remain” calm. The march went ahead without clashes, although one person threw an egg from a building, and police said another person was detained for carrying a knife and hammer. Ahead of the rally, some residents barricaded the ground floor windows of their apartments in fear. Between the extreme of this and the extreme of that, it’s nonstop.”The event went ahead despite calls from Lyon’s left-wing green mayor, Gregory Doucet, and LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard for the state to ban it.

Source: Taipei Times February 22, 2026 16:54 UTC