“We will continue to monitor the situation and expect to see the perpetrators of violence brought to justice,” it posted on X, which was retweeted by the U.S. embassy in Paris.
The publication angered the French government, which has been trying to contain the political fallout from Deranque’s death and its risks to public safety, weeks ahead of local elections in March.
“We refuse to allow this tragedy to be exploited for political ends,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said on radio France Inter on Sunday. “We have no lessons to learn, particularly when it comes to violence, from international reactionary [forces],” he added.
In the same interview, Barrot criticized U.S. sanctions against former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton and French International Criminal Court judge Nicolas Guillou, calling them unjustified.
Kushner has been summoned to the foreign ministry Monday at 7 p.m. He was also summoned in August after writing in the Wall Street Journal that France was not doing enough to combat antisemitism.
The Trump-appointed ambassador is being closely watched after receiving National Rally leaders Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella in December, days after the U.S. administration had words of support for “patriotic European parties” in its eyebrow-raising National Security Strategy. Kushner has met with other French political leaders in recent months as well, including presidential candidates Edouard Philippe and Bruno Retailleau.