France has banned US ambassador Charles Kushner from meeting government officials after he ignored a summons from the foreign ministry over Trump administration comments about the recent killing of a far-right activist.
Kushner, the father of Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, was called to the Quai d’Orsay after Washington waded into the political turmoil in France since 23-year-old Quentin Deranque was killed this month in a clash between his group and far-left militants in Lyon.
The US state department warned that “violent radical leftism is on the rise” and represented a threat to “public safety”, promising in a post on X that the US would “monitor the situation and expect to see the perpetrators of violence brought to justice”.