“Within minutes of the announcement that the American conservative activist Charlie Kirk had died from an assassin’s bullet, statements of grief came pouring in from leaders across Europe.
““An atrocious murder, a deep wound for democracy and for those who believe in freedom,” Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wrote on X. “France expresses its deep emotion following the assassination of Charlie Kirk,” the French Foreign Ministry proclaimed.
“Despite the 31-year-old political provocateur once calling his country “a totalitarian third world hellhole,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said it was “heartbreaking that a young family has been robbed of a father and a husband.””
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