PARIS: A young far left activist has been left brain dead after a fight with skinheads in central Paris in an incident that has sent shockwaves through the French capital.

The country's interior minister Manuel Valls condemned the violence, which he said "bears the marks of the far-right", noting that Clement Meric was "hit extremely violently by several skinheads" in a fight on Wednesday.

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