New twist in the battle between La France insoumise and the institutions concerning the speeches on the Hamas attacks on October 7 in Israel and the situation in Gaza since then. After the serial cancellations of conferences in Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s universities, legal summons are now raining down on the rebels. In turn, the president of the LFI parliamentary group in the National Assembly was summoned by the police for “apology of terrorism”.
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LFI European candidate Rima Hassan received a summons last week. And this Tuesday, it was Mathilde Panot who found herself in the same situation. With the same motive in both cases: “apology of terrorism”.
At issue in this latest summons, the press release published by the parliamentary group on October 7 itself, in which is mentioned “ an offensive by the Palestinian armed forces led by Hamas “.
It is a priori on this formulation, which does not cite the terrorist nature of the attacks and which had then sparked lively controversy, that the prosecution decided to investigate the complaint apparently filed by the European Jewish Organization, already the origin of the proceedings against Rima Hassan.
Mathilde Panot says she is ready in principle to respond to the summons, while denouncing “ a first in the history of the Fifth Republic “.
And the whole of La France insoumise is in tune. Jean-Luc Mélenchon vilifies the legal process on social networks. “ We now know who threatens freedom of conscience and why: protecting genocide from Gaza », storms the three-time presidential candidate.
Enough in any case to further strengthen the movement’s strategy of putting the Middle East conflict at the heart of its European campaign.
And LFI intends to use these invitations to keep the subject at the top of the news: the organization of public actions around the question of freedom of expression is notably envisaged.
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