Matilda Pano, head of the LFI parliamentary group, announced on Tuesday that she had been summoned by the police as part of an investigation related to her parliamentary group’s press release following the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7. Raphael Glucksmann, head of the PS-Place public list for the European elections, confirmed on Wednesday that “political disputes” should not be “resolved in court.”
This text from France Insoumise caused heated controversy due to Insoumise’s refusal to classify the Palestinian Islamist movement and the massacres it committed as “terrorist”.
Stating that he was in an “extremely deep confrontation” with LFI on this issue, Raphael Glucksmann assessed on France 2 that “what they did was a serious moral and political mistake” but “this is not an apology.”
“I am categorically against (the fact that) political disputes, no matter how brutal and deep they may be, are resolved in the courts,” added the leader of the Social Democrats.
“Let’s fight abuses ruthlessly, but politically,” he insisted, emphasizing that the European elections on June 9 will be “an opportunity to decide on substance,” in particular “attitudes towards violence (and) terrorism.”
“The sprinkler poured”
“Let’s allow political debate to take place in France without criminalizing it,” LFI MP Eric Cockerel said on the website franceinfo. In his opinion, the “prosecutor” who drew up the subpoena “reproaches” the movement created by Jean-Luc Mélenchon for the “political analysis” of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, for which he is “reproached.”
“It made LFI smile even more when it happened that others ended up in court,” joked RN MP Sebastien Chenu on franceinfo. Nevertheless, he recalled that if he “fights” for the positions of the LFI, “politics cannot end in court,” especially during the election period.
“Let those who set the fire come and whine about being burned, we don’t care about the world,” said his Assembly colleague Jean-Philippe Tanguy (RN) on BFMTV-RMC, while admitting that “We shouldn’t call out political opponents.”
The less nuanced president of the LR Senators, Bruno Retaio, welcomed on Cnews-Europe 1 “a return to sender with a sprinkler”, denouncing the “drift from wokism to Islamism” of the “radical left (which) embraces the entire anti-republican struggle.”
Source: Le Parisien
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