The U.S. embassy did not respond immediately to POLITICO’s request for comment.
Kushner faced criticism from French authorities due to U.S. government posts on X regarding the death of 23-year-old Quentin Deranque, killed earlier this month during a fight at a political conference in Lyon. Individuals linked to ultra-left groups are under investigation for the incident.
The U.S. Embassy in France’s X account translated and reposted a U.S. State Department counterterrorism bureau statement on Friday, stating: “Violent radical leftism is on the rise, and its role in Quentin Deranque’s death demonstrates the threat it poses to public safety.”
Barrot stated in a Sunday radio interview that France would not “allow this tragedy to be exploited for political ends.”
“We have no lessons to learn, particularly regarding violence, from international reactionary [forces],” he added.
Kushner, the father of U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, was also summoned last year after writing in the Wall Street Journal that France was not doing enough to combat antisemitism.
“I’m here to do a job,” Kushner said in an interview with French broadcaster LCI after his first summons. “If President Trump wanted to pick the best diplomat to go to France, he made the wrong choice, I’m not the best.”
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