A young left-wing activist was left brain dead after an attack by neo-Nazi skinheads Wednesday night in Paris in an assault police have said was “politically motivated”, reports FRANCE 24.
Clément Méric, an 18-year-old anti-fascism campaigner, was attending a clothes sale with friends in the 9th district of central Paris when three “skinhead-type” individuals, including one woman, arrived on the scene.
Witnesses told police that “angry words were exchanged” before the aggressors left “to fetch reinforcements”.
When Méric left the building he was assaulted by the group, including one person wearing brass knuckles, and hit his head on the pavement as he fell. He was declared brain dead in hospital later that night.
Police said they were treating the attack as a “politically motivated incident involving the far right versus the far left”.
Read more of this report from FRANCE 24.