The Court Orders the LFI-Led Vaulx-en-Velin Town Hall to Remove the Palestinian Flag
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The Lyon Administrative Court gave its reply on Wednesday, July 8, and without surprise the judge of the referenda suspended the decision... The article "The standard of freedom for all colonized peoples": a mayor LFI refuses to withdraw his Palestinian flag despite a court decision appeared first on current values.
The mayor, Abdelkader Lahmar, a member of the left-wing La France Insoumise party, refused to remove the flag "for the time being," after the administrative court ruled that it "seriously undermines the neutrality" of the public service. Source link: https://www.nouvelobs.com/societe/20260708.OBS116522/la-justice-ordonne-a-la-mairie-lfi-de-vaulx-en-velin-de-retirer-le-drapeau-palestinien.html Author: Publish date: 2026-07-08 19:01:00 Copyright f…
The flag had been raised on Saturday in front of the city hall as part of a festival on the situation in Palestine. The prefect had then announced that he would refer the matter to the administrative court.
The mayor of the commune, Abdelkader Lahmar, declared that there was "no question of picking up the flag (...) pending judgment at the bottom".
Abdelkader Lahmar asserts that there is "no question" of withdrawing the flag immediately and envisages an appeal to the Council of State.
Seized by the Prefect of the Rhône Étienne Guyot, the administrative justice charged, Wednesday 8 July, to the mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin (Rhône) to withdraw the Palestinian flag installed on his pediment. Faced with the urgency of denouncing the genocide committed in Gaza, the unsubstantiated mayor Abdelkader Lahmar replied that "there is no question of picking up the flag immediately".
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