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France to summon US ambassador over comments on far-right activist’s death
Top French diplomat says his government rejects any attempt to use Quentin Deranque’s death ‘for political purposes’.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot says US Ambassador Charles Kushner will be summoned over the US embassy’s recent comments on the killing of a far-right French activist this month in the southeastern city of Lyon.
“We are going to summon the United States ambassador to France since the US embassy in France commented on this tragedy, … which concerns the national community,” Barrot told the French newspaper Le Monde and public broadcasters France Inter and France Info on Sunday.
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“We reject any attempt to use this tragedy … for political purposes,” he added.
The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs did not say when Kushner, the father of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, would be summoned.
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