LFI is outraged that a tribute is paid to Philippine but not to the two French people killed in Lebanon

The National Assembly will observe a minute of silence this Tuesday afternoon in tribute to Philippine, a young student killed ten days ago in Paris, but will not do the same for the two French people killed in Lebanon, which puts “angry” the Insoumis deputies. “I had asked that a minute of silence be organized in tribute to the two French people killed” in recent days by bombings by the Israeli army, declared Mathilde Panot at a press conference.

“This tribute was refused by the President of the Assembly” Yaël Braun-Pivet, “pretending that this afternoon there would already be a tribute to Philippine”added the head of the LFI deputies. “We said we were in favor of this tribute to Philippine”while demanding “that in addition there is a tribute to the 103 women who have died of femicide already this year”continued the leader of LFI.

More “this cannot explain why there is no tribute for our two compatriots who died in Lebanon”she insisted, reporting that the president of the assembly “dared to say (…) that minutes of silence were reserved for great moments of national emotion”. Lebanon, “with a million displaced people” and several hundred deaths, “this apparently does not provoke emotion in the country”lamented Mathilde Panot, emphasizing “how angry this decision makes (her)”. Especially since with “23,000 French in Lebanon, 40,000 Lebanese in France and 700 French peacekeepers” on the border with Israel, “France is directly concerned by what is happening in Lebanon”she said.