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Published on: 02/16/2026 - 06:09

On the front page of the press, this Monday, February 16, the death, Saturday, in Lyon, of a young student from the nationalist movement, on the sidelines of a conference by the MEP of La France Insoumise, Rima Hassan. A drama that turns into a political controversy. The rise of the AfD in Germany, where young people seem increasingly susceptible to far-right discourse. The Blues’ great harvest at the Winter Olympics. And the winner of the traditional seagull cry competition at the Dunkirk carnival.

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On the front page of the press, the death, Saturday, in Lyon, of a young student from the nationalist movement, on the sidelines of a conference by the MEP of La France Insoumise, Rima Hassan.

“After the lynching of Quentin, the far left indictment”: Le Figaro accuses LFI of having “nourished the political violence at the origin of this tragedy”. For the newspaper, the 23-year-old young man, "in this story", "is not an 'activist' caught in a 'brawl' but a martyr for freedom of expression, which the far left, aided by too many accomplices, wants to replace with its hideous law of the pack".

“Unbearable climate of excess”

The daily Les Echos believes that "the assassination of this young nationalist by hooded men apparently close to the ultra-left" puts the boss of La France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, "face to face with his contradictions", and regrets the absence of "mea culpa" on his part, "including on the violence of political discourse".

LFI, which condemns the crime of which Quentin was a victim. Beyond this affair, Libération denounces "the unbearable climate of excess and intolerance in which French politics has been bathed for some time" - a climate which "can only generate this kind of drama by warming up too simple minds of whatever side they may be". Finally L'Humanité sees in Quentin's death a "climax of political violence", "a tragedy shamefully co-opted by the reactionary galaxy".

Several voices, including that of the leader of the RN, Marine Le Pen, are calling for the classification of “antifa” as terrorist organizations. Le Figaro reports that Quentin's brutal death was also commented on in Germany. According to Alice Weidel, co-leader of the far-right AfD party, "antifas must now be classified as a terrorist organization, as is already the case in the United States", where Donald Trump signed a decree to this effect on September 22, two weeks after the assassination of ultraconservative influencer Charlie Kirk by a 22-year-old young man.

Hitler salute "for laughs"

The AfD is credited by polls with 40% of the votes in the regional election of Saxony-Anhalt next September and its ideas are increasingly infusing the whole country, in particular the youth, according to an investigation by the newspaper Die Zeit. The daily evokes a phenomenon occurring "for several years", "in the East and in the West", "in rural areas as well as in cities", in "disadvantaged educational establishments as well as in prestigious high schools". A high school student says he saw one of his classmates say to a friend wearing black nail polish: "I think gay people should be gassed," others doing the Hitler salute "for laughs," or "the white supremacist sign" consisting of forming a circle with the thumb and index finger while spreading the other three fingers. Last month, the AfD published a list of measures to be implemented in Saxony-Anhalt in the event of victory.

In Le Grand Continent, researcher Amaury Coulomb studies one of them, proposing that asylum seekers be subjected to “reforestation” work, while awaiting their very probable expulsion. According to him, "the AfD adorns itself with ecological arguments" "to justify its systematic attacks against energy transition policies", and "the association of the German forest with a form of forced labor follows an organicist worldview exacerbated by Nazi Germany". This compares society "to a biological organism" whose supposed health and purity must be preserved.

In the press, also, the announcement of probable new sanctions against Moscow, after the confirmation, by 5 European countries, of the poisoning of Alexeï Navalny. The free Metro relays the statement yesterday by British Foreign Minister Yvette Cooper indicating that her country is considering "increasing sanctions" against Russia - a statement which follows a European investigation claiming that the leader of the Russian opposition was killed by the administration of a deadly toxin, produced by the dart frog, an Ecuadorian species. Moscow denies, and assures that Alexeï Navalny died on February 16, 2024, at the age of 47, of “natural causes”.

JO: “The story is good”

Also heading to Italy and the Winter Olympics, where France equaled its best historical total yesterday. With fifteen medals on the clock, the Blues have already surpassed their record from the Beijing Olympics, 4 years ago. For L'Equipe, "the story is good", especially since there is still a week of tests remaining. Unfortunately, it was missed, on the other hand, for Daniel Tschofenig. The Austrian was disqualified in the first round on the large hill because of shoes that were four millimeters too long. We don't joke with the equipment, as recently proven by the investigation launched into the enlargement of ski jumpers' suits, by penis enlargement.

A word, to finish, about the traditional Dunkirk seagull cry competition. This beautiful tradition of the city's carnival, created 13 years ago, was won this year by a woman called "Maître Mouette & Chandon", who said she practiced a lot in her car between two meetings. The young woman saw her efforts rewarded with the honor of lifting the famous Mouettus shield, a year after a certain Michel Polnamouette. To watch on the France Info website.

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