The assassination of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday triggered an outpouring of support from across the globe, with the leaders of many right-wing parties paying tribute and offering their condolences.
Global leaders, including British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, and Argentine President Javier Milei, all extended their condolences to Kirk’s family over the killing. Leading figures in right-wing parties, across the world but mainly in Europe, all gave their own tributes, often connecting it to a political message.
Germany
The two leaders of Germany’s top-polling party, the Alternative für Deutschland Party, both expressed their condolences and blamed the violence on left-wing rhetoric.
“The execution of Charlie Kirk is a disgrace to the ‘free’ West,” AfD co-Chairman Bjorn Hocke said. “Kirk was a young, peace-loving family man who held a clear stance, but as a Christian always sought dialogue with those who thought differently. I am horrified. My deepest sympathy goes to his wife and children.”
“Charlie Kirk is dead,” AfD co-Chairwoman Alice Weidel said. “A fighter for freedom of speech. For that, he was now shot by a fanatic who hates our way of life and discussion. My thoughts are with his family, to whom I express my sincere condolences. It is so terrible.”
Slovakia
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who narrowly survived being shot several times last year, compared the killing to the attempts on his own life.
“Many people asked me during the day whether I would react to the murder of Charlie Kirk, a supporter of U.S. President D. Trump,” he said in a post on X. “Well, what can I say. If you don’t hold the one mandatory ‘correct’ opinion demanded by progressives or liberals, then you must be shot. Unlike Kirk, I was a millimeter luckier.”
Hungary
Hungary, a central hub of European conservatives, was filled with expressions of grief over Kirk’s death. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban led the condolences, praising Kirk as a “true defender of faith and freedom.”
“Our deepest condolences go to the Kirk family and to the American people,” he said in a post on X. “Charlie Kirk’s death is the result of the international hate campaign waged by the progressive-liberal left. This is what led to the attacks on Robert Fico, on Andrej Babiš, and now on Charlie Kirk. We must stop the hatred! We must stop the hate-mongering left!”
Serbia
Serbian Foreign Minister Marko Đurić, vice president of the right-wing Serbian Progressive Party, sent his condolences over Kirk’s assassination, saying that Serbia stood united alongside the United States against political violence.
“He will be remembered in Serbia as a friend of the Serbian people and of our region,” Đurić said.
Serbian social media users circulated a video of Kirk voicing his love for the Serbian people, saying he had grown up around them and had his own basketball shirt with a Serbified version of his name: Sheva Kirkovic.
Japan
Condolences also poured in from Japan, Kirk’s last foreign destination before he died. Kirk went on a speaking tour of East Asia, speaking to members of the Japanese upstart right-wing Sanseito Party in Tokyo just days before he was killed. Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya expressed his heartbreak over the news.
Kamiya said that, during Kirk’s brief visit, “he became more than a distinguished guest — he became a comrade, committed to building the future with us. We had promised to meet again at his year-end event and had begun to imagine the work we would take on together. Charlie left us with a wealth of vital messages.
“Though his life was taken, no one can take his convictions or silence the message he carried. We will honor him in the only way worthy of his example: by treasuring what we received from him, by telling it faithfully, and by carrying it forward — here in Japan and beyond.”
France
France’s right-wing leaders spoke out in support of Kirk, blaming his assassination on rhetoric from the Left.
“The dehumanizing rhetoric of the left and its intolerance fuel political violence,” National Rally leader Jordan Bardella said in a post on X. “No one can ignore this poison that is eating away at our democratic societies.”
Former NR leader Marine Le Pen called the assassination a “horror,” then said the “most atrocious and most disturbing thing is that some on French television channels justify these political assassinations.”
Le Pen’s right-wing firebrand niece, Marion Marechal, praised Kirk’s “exceptional talent and courage,” saying he never stopped humiliating the “far left and woke ideology through his sense of rhetoric, his culture, and his humor.”
“We saw it again today in our streets, including with physical assaults: here as in the United States, the radical left wants civil war. And is now even resorting again to political assassinations. But we will not back down,” she said, referring to the “Block Everything” protests rocking the country.
Romania
George Simion, a Trump ally and leader of the highest-polling party in Romania, the right-wing Alliance for the Union of Romanians, praised Kirk as “one of the most important conservative voices of our times!”
After learning of his death, Simion mourned Kirk as one of the U.S.’s “most influential patriots and conservatives.”
“They failed to kill President #Trump, but killed his friend and ally,” he said. “Rest in peace, Charlie! Your fight will be carried on.”
Călin Georgescu, the conservative presidential candidate who became the center of international attention after his winning election results were canceled late last year, hailed Kirk as a martyr.
“Charlie Kirk always promoted peace,” he said. “It happened to Charlie Kirk in America, it could have happened here as well, or anywhere else.”
United Kingdom
Kirk’s assassination drew condemnations across the political spectrum in the U.K., especially due to the Turning Point chapter in the country.
Reform Party leader Nigel Farage, who testified in Congress last week, mourned Kirk’s murder as a “very dark day for American democracy.”
“I am desperately sad for Charlie, his wife and children,” he said.
Farage offered his further condolences in a Thursday speech in Parliament, urging a return to civility in political debate and describing Kirk as his friend.
South Korea
Kirk spoke in South Korea just four days before his death, a detail noted and mourned by conservative and Christian leaders in the country.
Mina Kim, founder of the South Korean Christian conservative group Build Up Korea, praised Kirk’s visit, saying he “proclaimed God’s vision for Korea, declaring how vital this nation is to the United States.”
“God moved our hearts to pray for Charlie on that very day, September 6, and so we, the young people of Korea, lifted up prayers for him,” she said. “Today we proclaim that those prayers have not fallen to the ground in vain. His sacrificial blood will bring renewal to both America and Korea.”
Conservative journalist Paul Sungwon Kim, founder of the popular Ground C outlet, said Kirk’s message “moved” the Korean people and compared his death to the sacrifice of American soldiers who served in the Korean War.
“We will never forget your sacrifice,” he said. “Just as the 1.78 million American soldiers who devoted themselves to this nation 75 years ago, your sacrifice, too, will never be in vain.”
Kirk’s Korean supporters put together an impromptu memorial to Kirk in Incheon Liberty Park.
Sweden
Charlie Weimers, a member of the European Parliament with the right-wing Sweden Democrats, proclaimed, “We are all Charlie now,” drawing parallels with the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
Russia
Kirk’s death was mourned by several major Russian figures and groups. The small Libertarian Party of Russia formed an impromptu shrine commemorating Kirk and the recently murdered Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska outside of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
The Russian government strongly condemned Kirk’s killing.
“We must find the perpetrator and those who were certainly involved in this terrible crime,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday. “Until we know who did it, we simply cannot draw any premature conclusions.”
One of the most influential oligarchs in Russia, the conservative monarchist Konstantin Malofeyev, posted a lengthy essay on his Telegram channel, where he drew an elaborate comparison with the Democratic Party and Ukraine.
“The demonstrative public killing of the young and vibrant politician Charlie Kirk, a Christian and a conservative, clearly marked the beginning of a new phase of the civil war in the United States,” he wrote, adding that the last flashpoint were the riots surrounding the death of George Floyd, which was “inflated by the liberal fake media into an event of cosmic proportions.”
Russian media extensively covered the assassination and manhunt, often noting his previous criticism of aid to Ukraine.
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Albania
Sali Berisha, a former president and prime minister of Albania who is now the leader of the conservative Democratic Party, paid tribute to Kirk in a post on X, calling him a “rising star of American conservatism.”
“In condemning this heinous act, I extend my deepest condolences to his family and friends, and I call for the immediate capture of the perpetrator so that justice may be served with the full weight of the law,” Berisha said.
