Mathilde Panot, deputy of La France insoumise, and Rima Hassan, candidate of the party in the European elections, were heard this Tuesday, April 30 in the premises of the Parisian judicial police, as part of investigations for “apology of terrorism”, after remarks linked to the war in the Middle East. The subject animated the question session to the government, today in the Palais Bourbon.
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Two prominent members of LFI questioned by the police for comments made concerning the situation in the Middle East. The LFI group in the Assembly is particularly accused of having published a press release following October 7, comparing the attack by the Islamist movement and “ the intensification of the Israeli occupation policy » in the Palestinian Territories.
These summons are considered an act of “ censorship » by La France insoumise. In the hemicycle, this Tuesday, LFI coordinator and deputy Manuel Bompard questioned the government about them.
“ From now on, your authoritarianism moves onto the terrain of ideas, he said. There are authorized opinions, yours and those of your new far-right friends. And there are the others, those who go to court or to police stations. Amnesty International alert on the worrying human rights situation in France. The National Human Rights Commission denounces a circular from the Minister of Justice which misuses anti-terrorism to muzzle the voices of the opposition. The alerts follow one another. Do you intend to undermine the fundamentals of our rule of law one by one? When will you stop disfiguring France? »
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It was the Minister of Justice himself, Éric Dupont-Moretti, who responded to the opposition MP: “ Justice, he counterattacked, you like her stuck against the wall by Mélenchon’s violence, that’s how you see her. We are going to say things very clearly, Mr. Bompard: after October 7 and the terrorist attack by Hamas, which you support, I issued a circular so that we could repress the anti-Semitic comments that were made. developed. I was right to do so. Your friends are the mullahs, Mr. Bompard, you should be ashamed! »
The LFI candidate for the Europeans Rima Hassansummoned by the police, deplored Monday “ a criminalization of voices that express themselves on the Palestinian question ”, while recognizing that “ the investigators are simply doing their job » after “ abusive recourse “. The 32-year-old lawyer, specialist in international law, who denounces a “ genocide » in Gaza, is at the center of attention, as a candidate in seventh place on a list for European elections has rarely been.
Her detractors criticize her for her very harsh tone on Israel – a state that she describes as “a fascist colonial entity » – or his use of the slogan “ from the river [Jourdain] at the sea [Méditerranée] “. A phrase associated by some with the destruction of Israel.
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