France to shut far-right group after student death

FranceFrance will shut down a fringe far-right youth group after the killing of a leftist student in Paris this week, France's prime minister said on Saturday, and reiterated his promise to crack down on fascist groups in the country, reports Reuters.

The death of 19-year-old Clement Meric in a clash between ultra-right and far-left youths on Wednesday follows months of street violence from far-right groups over the legalisation of gay marriage.

The group to be shut down, the Revolutionary Nationalist Youths, is the militant wing of a broader far-right movement known as the "Third Way".

The Youths group has denied it was involved in Meric's beating but the Paris prosecutor said in an earlier press conference on Saturday all the suspects under investigation had ties to the Third Way.

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