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The French Foreign Ministry has vetoed the American ambassador in Paris, Charles Kushner, he direct access to members of the French Government after the diplomat has not attended a meeting called to protest what he considers a interference for his criticism of the beating death of the young far-right Quentin Deranque in Lyon on February 14.
“He has not shown up. Given this apparent lack of understanding of the basic expectations of the mission of an ambassador who has the honor of representing his country, Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has requested that would not be allowed to continue having direct access to members of the French Government“French diplomatic sources confirmed this Monday.
Despite this, “it remains possible” for the US ambassador to France to “fulfill his mission.” and be presented at the Quai d’Orsay – headquarters of the Foreign Ministry – so that we can hold diplomatic conversations that allow smooth out the rough edges that, inevitably, can arise in a friendship relationship that has lasted 250 years”.
Diplomatic crisis
Jean-Noel Barrot announced this Sunday that he would convene this Monday Charles Kushner, father of Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, by “instrumentalize” the murder of Deranque and made it clear that France “has no lessons to learn about violence, particularly from the reactionary international community.”
But the US ambassador, who has held the position at the head of the embassy in Paris since July 2025, He did not come or give explanations about the sit-in.
This diplomatic crisis takes place after the US Embassy in France denounced on social networks that the “Violent left-wing extremism is on the rise” and that “his role in “The death of Quentin Deranque demonstrates the threat he poses to public safety.”
Reports, corroborated by the French Interior Minister, that Quentin Deranque was killed by far-left activists should concern us all.
Violent left-wing extremism is on the rise and its role in the death of Quentin Deranque… https://t.co/90BOijTxhR— U.S. Embassy France (@USEmbassyFrance) February 20, 2026
“We will closely monitor the situation and hope that the perpetrators of these violent acts are brought to justice,” added the message, which was also published by the US Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Sarah B. Rogers.
Given this, the French Foreign Minister did not hesitate to point out this weekend that France does not allow other countries to give them lessons on their domestic policy, after condemning the murder of Deranque because “Any act of violence, wherever it comes from, is condemnable”and having asked that violence be rejected “in words and in deeds.”
“We have no lesson to learn,” Barrot stressed, hinting that this is not the first time that US authorities or Ambassador Kushner have made comments about French domestic politics.
Convicted and pardoned by Trump
The US ambassador to France was already summoned once at the end of last August for criticizing the country’s president, Emmanuel Macron, for his “inaction” to combat anti-Semitism.
On that occasion Kushner did not attend either and an American chargé d’affaires did in his place.
In 2005, Charles Kushner Sr. was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to 18 counts of tax evasion, witness tampering and illegal campaign donations, paradoxically in favor of the Democratic Party.
In 2020, Trump ended up pardoning Kushner, one of more than two dozen pardons the then-president issued after losing his re-election bid to Joe Biden.
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