After making controversial remarks “in defense of war crimes”, according to left-wing elected officials, MP Meyer Habib is the subject of a request to lift his parliamentary immunity.
Comments which could “become akin to the apology of war crimes”. Thirty-nine deputies requested the lifting of the parliamentary immunity of Meyer Habib, Republican deputy for the 8th constituency of French people living abroad, in a letter addressed to the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, Thursday 21 December. The elected officials, from the environmentalist, socialist and Insoumis groups, criticize him for having given a controversial speech concerning the situation in the Gaza Strip. A sentence pronounced during the questions to the government session in the National Assembly, Tuesday, December 19, did not pass through the hemicycle. “While the minister [des affaires étrangères Catherine Colonna] was invited to react to the death of a Quai d’Orsay agent [à la] following (…) the Israeli bombings on a residential building housing civilians, MP Meyer Habib distinctly pronounced, and twice, the words: “And it’s not over!” “, we learn in the letter. Left-wing elected officials denounce comments that “apology for war crimes.”
The request for “a heavy disciplinary penalty”
In their letter, they ask for “a heavy disciplinary penalty” against the MP and call on the commission responsible for article 26 of the application of the Constitution to meet to examine “the lifting of the parliamentary immunity of M . Meyer Habib. The Republican deputy, fervent support of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, denounces “gross manipulation”. “Their damp squib is only a crude counter-fire to try to forget the repeated apologia for terrorism, the negationism and anti-Semitism at work in their ranks since October 7, but also their silence in the face of pogroms, [aux] rapes, [aux] baby massacres, [de] old men and [de] survivors of the Shoah,” he assured.