Since entering politics, Rima Hassan, candidate for the European elections on the list of La France insoumise, has been the subject of incessant criticism. This time she is summoned by the courts, accused of advocating terrorism, for comments she made last fall on Hamas attacks in Israel. The Franco-Palestinian lawyer promises that she will not give up, and neither will LFI.
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It was last March 6: Rima Hassan, big surprise of the rebellious list to the Europeans just revealed. Since then, the Franco-Palestinian lawyer has become essential. It is on all the campaign posters and we fight for it at the meetings.
For the rebels, Rima Hassan ticks all the boxes: eloquent, charismatic, graduated in international law and above all propelled as spokesperson for the Palestinian cause in France, since the Hamas attacks on October 7.
At the campaign launch meeting on March 16, she was the most applauded. In Roubaix last week, she took a series of selfies. The situation in the Middle East became the alpha and omega of the rebellious campaign; Rima Hassan, his muse. And the young woman is not fooled by this meteorite trajectory.
“I will not be intimidated”
In the North, his speech does not mention Gaza once. “ I don’t want to be essentialized “, she says. Too late undoubtedly, as it is now a favored target of defenders of Israel and political adversaries of LFI.
The high point is this complaint for apology for terrorism. “ I won’t let myself be intimidated », storms Friday April 19 Rima Hassan on social networks, where not an hour passes without her reacting, at the risk of slipping.