French-Palestinian MEP denounces 'judicial harassment'
Prosecutors say the France Unbowed lawmaker faces a July 7 trial over a post referencing a 1972 attack that killed 26 people.
- French prosecutors announced that Rima Hassan will face trial on July 7 over charges of 'promoting terrorism' related to a social media post. She also received summonses for a September 16 hearing on glorifying a crime and incitement.
- Hassan's social media post last month referenced a 1972 attack in Tel Aviv that killed 26 people involving a Japanese activist. Prosecutors claim this reference constitutes 'promoting terrorism,' forming the basis for the charges.
- Prosecutors allege CBD and the synthetic drug 3MMC were found in Hassan's possession during custody. On Friday, she denied the claims, stating one CBD product was legal while the second allegedly contained synthetic drugs added by unknown parties.
- France Unbowed coordinator Manuel Bompard called Hassan 'the target of judicial persecution.' Hassan told her lawyer Vincent Brengarth the pattern of harassment 'began as soon as I entered politics.'
- Hassan, the first French-Palestinian member of the European Parliament, has faced recurring controversy including an arrest during a Gaza aid flotilla and a fatal protest in Lyon. These incidents reflect heightened tensions in France over the Gaza conflict.
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If the procedure launched against the MEP LFI for "apology of terrorism" is likely to fail, it illustrates a paradoxical drift.
On Friday, 3 April, at a press conference, Rima Hassan's lawyer commented on his client's detention in custody for apology of terrorism. Vincent Brengarth considered it "perfectly illegal" and constituted "an immensely serious circumvention." He took the opportunity to evoke a total "disproportion" of the judicial treatment given to his client, convened on Thursday due to a tweet. She quoted a member of the Japanese Red Army involved in a murder…
MEP LFI Rima Hassan denounced a "judicial harassment" after being heard by the police on Friday 3 April in Paris, as part of a different investigation of the suspicions of "apology of terrorism" for which she had already been placed in police custody the previous day.
The detention of MEP Rima Hassan for "apology of terrorism", lifted on 3 April, raises questions on parliamentary immunity in France
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