France to summon U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner over State Department's comments on activist's death

[riversedge]

Source: CBS news


February 22, 2026 / 8:52 AM EST / CBS/AP


France will summon U.S. Ambassador Charles Kusher to protest comments made by the Trump administration over the death of a far-right activist, the foreign affairs minister said on Sunday.

Jean-Noel Barrot was reacting to a statement by the U.S. State Department's Counterterrorism Bureau, which stated that "reports, corroborated by the French Minister of the Interior, that Quentin Deranque was killed by left-wing militants, should concern us all."

The State Department said in its post on X that "violent radical leftism is on the rise and its role in Quentin Deranque's death demonstrates the threat it poses to public safety. We will continue to monitor the situation and expect to see the perpetrators of violence brought to justice."

Deranque, a far-right activist, died of brain injuries last week from a beating in the French city of Lyon. He was attacked during a fight on the margins of a student meeting where a far-left lawmaker, Rima Hassan, was a keynote speaker......................

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/france-summon-us-ambassador-charles-kushner-state-departments-comment-quentin-deranque/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

[Prairie Gates]

1. We sent a real estate crook and ex-con to be Ambassador to France

Disgraceful.

[underpants]

2. Imagine the odds of a Kushner screwing things up. 🤪

[hatrack]

3. Inconceivable!!

[underpants]

6. 😃😃😂😃

[mpcamb]

5. Maybe they'll put him back in jail?

[UpInArms]

4. The turds rise to the top of every septic tank

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[dickthegrouch]

7. The French are well-known as bureaucracy experts

I hope every 'i' is dotted and 't' crossed on his diplomatic passport.
Any tiny discrepancy in his paperwork could cause a problem .

Is issuing a diplomatic passport to a convicted (and pardoned) felon even allowed?
(Asking for a fiend).

[Marcuse]

8. Isn't that the guy who set a honey trap for his brother in law then sent the video to his sister.

[NJCher]

9. Here ya' go

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Arrest of Charles Kushner pains the many NJ Jewish groups he supports
The arrest of a Jewish real estate developer and philanthropist has sent waves of shock and dismay through New Jersey’s Jewish community.


Kushner, 50, CEO of Kushner Companies of Florham Park, was charged on July 13 by a U.S. attorney, Christopher Christie, with conspiracy, obstructing a federal investigation into his finances and political contributions, and interstate promotion of prostitution. The complaint alleges that he arranged for intermediaries to hire a “call girl” to lure witnesses in the investigation to a hotel. One witness rejected a call girl’s advances; the other did not and Kushner is charged with arranging for a secretly made videotape of the encounter to be sent to the witness’s wife. Kushner’s lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, denied the charges.

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I remember it well; happened back in 2014. Both Kushner and Christie were from the town next door to me.

Link to story in Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

You see a lot of signs identifying the property as "Kushner" around here. Appropriately, the community was appalled and embarrassed.

[SouthBayDem]

10. If you don't want to click on a Bari Weiss/David Ellison website

here is the original AP story: https://apnews.com/article/france-us-ambassador-summoned-activist-69514462b8ba2596c2a5c190c72f98ab