00:00Political tensions are running high in France after a 23-year-old activist known only as
00:05Kantong died from a brutal beating in Lyon.
00:08Now President Emmanuel Macron is urging everyone to take a step back.
00:13Kantong died on Saturday, having fallen into a coma after being violently beaten on Thursday
00:19outside a conference given by far-left EU lawmaker Rima Hassan.
00:24She has since called for an investigation and for the perpetrators to be brought to
00:28justice.
00:28Macron quickly echoed that, calling the violence unacceptable, saying, quote,
00:34It is essential to prosecute, bring to justice, and sentence the perpetrators of this atrocity.
00:39Hatred that kills has no place in our country.
00:42I call for calm, restraint, and respect.
00:45In Paris, hundreds of protesters, mostly from far-right groups, rallied outside the Sobon
00:50University.
00:51Marion Marichal is a far-right lawmaker.
00:54I believe this simply illustrates something quite consistent in French history, at least
00:59in recent decades, which is the unpunished violence of the far-left and of the Antifa movement.
01:04It's now been over 48 hours since these events took place.
01:07Why have there been no arrests, no questionings, no detentions?
01:10Others in the crowd paid tribute to Kantan, who had been supporting an anti-immigration
01:15feminist group at the event.
01:17He was someone who was committed, committed to his ideals, a Catholic who converted his
01:22family, who had an extremely pious life dedicated to the common good, and who was beaten up by
01:27the far-left.
01:30So Kantan is someone to whom he must pay tribute.
01:33The Le Monde newspaper says prosecutors have opened an aggravated manslaughter investigation.
01:38But so far, no suspects have been identified.
01:42Far-right heavyweight Marine Le Pen called on the perpetrators to be brought to justice with
01:47the utmost severity.
01:48Far-right heavyweight crime community.rir
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