A British-Palestinian doctor who had come to testify in the Senate about the situation in Gaza was not allowed to enter Roissy airport

“An absolute disgrace,” condemned a communist senator from Paris. Ian Brossat he announced the penetration of the social network into Germany in April on X.

“I am at Charles de Gaulle airport. They won’t let me enter France. “I have to speak in the French Senate today (Saturday),” he wrote. “They say the Germans banned me from entering Europe for a year,” he added.

A police source confirmed to AFP that a “Schengen travel ban form” issued by Germany prevented him from entering Paris. In mid-April, Dr. Abu Sitta was banned from entering Germany, as was former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. Both were supposed to participate in the “Palestine Congress” in Berlin, which the German police put an end to an hour after it began.

When asked about Yanis Varoufakis, German authorities justified the measure by the desire to “prevent any anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli propaganda.” In a video broadcast that same day on Channel X, Dr. Abu Sitta mentioned that he was banned from entering Germany “for the entire month of April.” He also condemned the “suppression of freedom of expression in Germany”, a country he said was “complicit (israeli army) silencing witnesses to genocide” in the Gaza Strip.

According to a French government source, if a member country reports a “no entry” to the Schengen Information System, it is not allowed to enter all Schengen countries.

Forty-three days in Al Shifa Hospital

Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta, who spent 43 days receiving treatment in Gaza, particularly at Al-Shifa Hospital, was scheduled to take part in a Senate conference organized by environmentalist Senator Raymonde Ponce Monge. “The controversial surgeon @GhassanAbuSitt1, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon who intervened in #Gaza, was not allowed to participate in a conference in the @Senate,” reacted Guillaume Gontar, President of the environmental group in the Senate, on

“We are in talks with the cabinet of Gérald Darmanin and the cabinet of Stéphane Séjournet,” the interior and foreign ministers, he confirmed, although he believed he would “probably” be sent back to the UK, although he has a return policy in mind. Saturday night ticket. Finally, “thanks to the mobilization of lawyers, we managed to get a video conference call” with the doctor, said an environmentalist deputy who was present among us. »

The Senate as an institution does not initiate events, but political groups are free to organize conferences of their choice. In early April, Israeli forces withdrew from Al Shifa Hospital, where they said they had been fighting Palestinian militants in a two-week operation. A WHO-led mission reported on April 6 that the hospital had been reduced to an “empty shell” littered with human remains.