lyon · FR
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A far-right activist was fatally injured in Lyon on 12 February 2026 during violent confrontations between two groups on the margins of a conference given by a left-wing MEP at the city's Sciences Po campus. He died of his injuries two days later. Video of the confrontation published by a national weekly on 17 February shows two groups of about ten people fighting, with a crutch, an umbrella, a tear-gas canister and a smoke flare used. Nine people have been placed under judicial examination in the investigation into the death — eight for intentional homicide and one, a former parliamentary assistant to a left-wing MP, for complicity in murder by instigation. All nine are in pre-trial detention, and three investigating magistrates are handling the case. The victim was 23 years old. In July 2026 two of those charged filed complaints with the Lyon public prosecutor against fifteen far-right activists present on 12 February, alleging premeditated violence committed in a group, with weapons and with concealed faces. That complaint falls under a separate preliminary investigation into the conduct of the far-right group, which is being conducted independently of the homicide investigation. A lawyer for one of the charged men argues the two proceedings are inseparable and that evidence gathered in the preliminary investigation is being withheld from the magistrates investigating the death. On Tuesday 22 September 2026 eight further people were arrested in connection with the case. Five of them were placed under judicial examination for criminal conspiracy, and four of those also for aggravated violence committed with the use or threat of a weapon, in a group and with the face deliberately concealed, followed by an incapacity not exceeding eight days. The prosecutor sought pre-trial detention for three of them and judicial supervision for the other two. These eight were arrested over possible participation in the brawls that took place on the day of the victim's death, and their charges fall under the separate preliminary investigation into the violence rather than under the homicide investigation, whose nine charges are unchanged.
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- Imputato — 28 luglio 2026 fonte
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- incident_date corrected from 2026-07-28 to 2026-02-12: the source is a judicial-status update published on 28 July 2026, not a report of a new incident. The franceinfo article dates the confrontation in which the victim was fatally injured to 12 February in Lyon ('contre quinze militants identitaires presents le 12 fevrier a Lyon, lors des affrontements en marge de la conference'). File and slug renamed to match.
- Follow-up from intake issue #935 merged. victim.age_range filled as 20-30: franceinfo states the victim's age as 23, which no previously cited source gave. judicial_status unchanged at charged — the five new mises en examen belong to the separate preliminary investigation into the violence, not to the homicide information judiciaire. Two sources added. No new record created.