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“We won’t let anything go” et “we will continue to fight anti-Semitism by all means”Prime Minister Michel Barnier promised Monday evening during a ceremony in Paris in tribute to the victims of the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. “You can count on the President of the Republic, on the Prime Minister (…), on all members of the government to protect our compatriots of the Jewish faith”he added.

The mention of the head of state, Emmanuel Macron, sparked boos in a few rows of the public. Some in the room shouted “weapons” after the French president called on Saturday for a halt to arms deliveries to Israel. After tense exchanges between the French president and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Michel Barnier once again assured that “the security of the State of Israel is not and will never be negotiable”and that this country was located “in self-defense”.

“October 7 [2023]in the early morning, life gave way to distress, to tears, to horror, to carnage, to emptiness, to despair too. We will never forget »declared the Prime Minister, who received the families of the two French hostages in the afternoon. The head of government also mentioned “the situation of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the West Bank” Who ” also collides [la] conscience »and deplored the “victims”, including civil, “on both sides of the border with Lebanon”. He repeated that France would support “any initiative allowing, in strict respect for the existence and security of Israel (…), to move towards a two-state solution, which is the key to lasting peace”.

Against anti-Semitism, Michel Barnier proposed to reinforce “the resources mobilized” and progress on “the detection of these acts” by entrusting this work to the Keeper of the Seals, Didier Migaud, and to his Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, present at the ceremony as well as around fifteen ministers, and also encouraged “the education of students in [les] schools, through constant dialogue with associations”.