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French Palestinian MEP Rima Hassan Arrested Over Social Media Post

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Rima Hassan, 33, was born in the Neirab Palestinian refugee camp near Aleppo, Syria. Her family hails from the village of al-Birwa—depopulated in 1948—located south of Acre. She immigrated to France with her mother and five siblings at the age of nine, and at eighteen she obtained French citizenship. She later studied law at the Sorbonne University, where her thesis focused on apartheid in South Africa and Israel.

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Fifteen days after his arrest in Paris, Rima Hassan seized the Defender of Rights and denounced police "failures" and leaks in the press.

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The MEP LFI requests the opening of an investigation following false disclosures of alleged possession of synthetic drugs during his custody, early April 15 days after the

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After Mediapart's revelations about the police surveillance that allegedly targeted Euro MP Rima Hassan, the unsubstantiated MPs were taken with vigour at Laurent Nuñez this Thursday in the Assembly.

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The MP's defence denounces in particular the "disproportionate" research of his geolocation over the last three months, long before his publication on X, at the origin of his detention in police custody.

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According to a "Mediapart" investigation, investigators from the judicial police in Paris have deployed substantial means to trace the movements of the MEP LFI over several months.

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Mediapart broke the news in Paris, France on Thursday, April 16, 2026.
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