The US ambassador to France, Charles Kushner, has been blocked from instantly accessing French authorities ministers after he failed to look to a summons by French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot.
Kushner had been summoned over feedback made concerning the loss of life of a French far-right activist earlier this month, however “did not appear” on Monday, an announcement from France’s international affairs ministry, the Quai d’Orsay, mentioned.
“Faced with this apparent misunderstanding of the basic expectations of an ambassador’s mission, the Minister has requested that he no longer have direct access to members of the French government,” the assertion mentioned.
Kushner will nonetheless be permitted to hold out his duties and have “diplomatic exchanges” with officers.
NCS has reached out to the US embassy in France and the US State Department for remark.
Quentin Deranque, 23, died two days after struggling extreme head accidents in a brawl within the metropolis of Lyon on February 12, drawing remark from the Trump administration which described the loss of life as the results of left-wing violence.
On Friday, the US embassy in France shared an X submit from the US State Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau which mentioned studies that Deranque “was killed by left-wing militants, should concern us all.”
“Violent radical leftism is on the rise and its role in Quentin Deranque’s death demonstrates the threat it poses to public safety,” the X submit mentioned.
The deadly brawl was caught on video, which confirmed a number of masked folks kicking and punching a person on the bottom, inflicting widespread shock and anger in France.
The French international minister mentioned Sunday he would summon Kushner after he labeled his feedback concerning the incident as “interference.”
“We are summoning the US ambassador to France because the embassy issued a commentary on this event which concerns the national community. We reject any interference in this event,” Barrot mentioned in an interview with radio station France Inter.
Authorities have charged two folks with homicide in reference to Deranque’s loss of life, and altogether 11 have been arrested.
The incident has additionally sparked a diplomatic spat between France and Italy, after Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni mentioned Deranque’s loss of life was triggered “by groups linked to left-wing extremism” and condemned “a climate of ideological hatred sweeping several nations.”
This is just not the primary time that Kushner, father of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, has failed to look after being summoned amid criticism from the French authorities.
In August 2025, the Foreign Ministry summoned Kushner after he accused the French authorities of a “lack of sufficient action” in confronting antisemitism.
A French diplomatic supply instructed NCS that the US Chargé d’affaires was summoned to the ministry’s headquarters in Paris in Kushner’s absence, as he was not in Paris.