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French Far-Left Member of European Parliament Rima Hassan Held in Police Custody
- On Thursday, April 2, European Parliament member Rima Hassan was taken into police custody in Paris over allegations of "glorification of terrorism," according to Le Parisien.
- France's National Unit for Combating Online Hate launched the inquiry after a March 26 post by Hassan referenced Kozo Okamoto, a Japanese Red Army member involved in the 1972 Lod Airport attack that killed 26 people.
- Elected in 2024, the 33-year-old French-Palestinian lawyer has faced prior scrutiny for Palestine advocacy; Le Parisien and AFP reported a small amount of "synthetic drugs" was found during her arrest.
- Members of Hassan's La France Insoumise party condemned the detention, with Mathilde Panot stating "the criminalisation of political opponents has reached a new level."
- With no charges filed yet, the investigation remains ongoing as authorities assess whether the comments constitute a criminal offense under French law; Hassan was denied entry to Canada last week.
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The MEP was placed in police custody this Thursday morning in Paris for apology of terrorism. Synthetic drugs were found in her purse on this occasion.
French MEP Rima Hassan has been arrested this Thursday for a comment she posted on social network X, previously Twitter, last month about an attack on an Israeli airport in the 1970s when she considered that she was advocating terrorism. It has been reported by a fellow party member of the Hassan, although the leader of the formation, Jean-Luc Mélenchon , has also spoken about it. “The political police have again arrested Rima Hassan in connecti…
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The Franco-Palestinian MEP for La Francia Insumisa, Rima Hassan, was arrested on Thursday morning, on her arrival at a police station to which she was summoned to be interrogated for alleged "apology of terrorism" in a message spread on social networks.Continue reading....
French MEP Rima Hassan in custody over alleged apology for terrorism
Hassan, who was born stateless in a refugee camp for Palestinians in Syria, is one of France's most vocal pro-Palestine activists and has already had brushes with the law for perceived glorification of terrorism.
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