After Rima Hassan, 7th on the list of La France insoumise in the European elections, the leader of the Insoumis deputies Mathilde Panot announced on Tuesday that she was in turn summoned by the police as part of an investigation for “apology of terrorism”. In question, a press release published by the parliamentary group after the Hamas attacks against Israel on October 7. This text caused a lively controversy, due to the refusal of the Rebels to describe the Palestinian Islamist movement and the massacres it committed as “terrorist”.
Jérôme Guedj, socialist deputy for Essonne, guest of La Grande interview Europe 1-CNews, affirmed Thursday that he was “too attached to freedom of expression to consider that in the political debate, everyone is not free to say what that he wants”. “I was Charlie and I am still Charlie. I spoke out on this press release of October 7, it was a political and moral mistake. I condemned it and I drew the consequences. But I fight it on the political and moral ground I do not like this kind of leaden screed which consists of diverting tools from the fight against terrorism”, he proclaimed.
Gaza, major subject of the European elections
The summons of Mathilde Panot for apologizing for terrorism is an “unprecedented event in the history of our democracy” which shows a desire to “protect a genocide” in Gaza, the leader of La France insoumise said Tuesday on the X network ( LFI) Jean-Luc Mélenchon, making the conflict in the Gaza Strip a major subject in the run-up to the European elections. According to Jérôme Guedj, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has maintained ambiguity since the start of this conflict. “For me, all these are political and moral faults, moreover rather revealing of a feverishness in this electoral campaign and especially the absence of nuance”, he reiterates, also echoing the pro-conference Palestine which was to be held in the presence of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, at the initiative of the “Libre Palestine” association, and which was ultimately canceled.
“I want to be able to condemn Hamas, say that it is the adversary of the Palestinians and say that the Israeli response is unbearable,” he said at Sonia Mabrouk’s microphone, indicating that the existing coalition in 2022 between La France insoumise and the Socialist Party “no longer exists”.