Nine arrested in France over death of far-right student

Nine people have been arrested in France following an investigation into the murder of a far-right nationalist student by suspected militants from the far-left.



Those detained include a parliamentary assistant for a deputy from the radical left France Unbowed (LFI) party.



Quentin Deranque, a 23-year-old maths student, died in hospital on Saturday - two days after being beaten and kicked about the head by a gang of masked young men in Lyon.

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It happened after a small demonstration by far-right feminists - who Deranque was supposed to be helping protect - at the city's Institute of Political Studies (IEP), commonly known as Sciences-Po.



The arrests confirm what has widely been reported: that those suspected of the murder are far-left militants linked to a banned group called Young Guard..