Alexis Delafontaine / Credits: XOSE BOUZAS / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP”
Two figures from La France insoumise are expected this Tuesday morning at the police station. Mathilde Panot, president of the LFI group in the National Assembly, and Rima Hassan, pro-Palestine activist, rebellious candidate for the Europeans, will have to respond to the police as part of an investigation for “apology of terrorism”. But the entire party intends to take advantage of this summons.
An investigation for “apology of terrorism” was opened following a press release from the parliamentary group of La France insoumise, published on October 7. The LFI group then published a text which sparked controversy, because it particularly compared the Hamas attack, described as “an armed offensive by Palestinian forces” and “the intensification of the Israeli occupation policy” in the Palestinian territories. But LFI intends to take advantage of this invitation.
An “authoritarian drift”
The meeting takes place this Tuesday in front of the judicial police headquarters in Paris. The Insoumis are calling on all their activists to come and put pressure on investigators against these summons, hoping to win their case thanks to their protests, as in universities. And to mobilize her supporters, Mathilde Panot uses the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
“Every time voices try to be raised to raise the issue of peace, either the government responds with repression, while the youth are trying to raise the voice of freedom, or it responds with apologies for terrorism or by conference cancellations the authoritarian drift that we have been denouncing for years on the issue aims at one thing: to silence voices for peace.
So, would Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party be the victim of censorship? Insoumise France rather seeks to exploit its legal troubles to maintain its strategy of victimization.