France, Feb. 20 -- Six men suspected of beating Deranque, 23, to death were charged with deliberate homicide and were in custody.

A seventh man, an assistant to the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) lawmaker Raphael Arnault, was charged with complicity and also detained.

Deranque died on 14 February from a severe brain injury two days after being attacked by at least six people near the site of a conference held at Sciences Po Lyon by LFI MEP Rima Hassan.

He was at the venue to provide security for activists from the Nemesis identity collective, who were demonstrating against Hassan's visit. Nemesis blamed the killing on the La Jeune Garde Antifasciste (Anti-Fascist Young Guard), a group co-founded by Arnault in Lyon in 2018 and dissolved...