Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau announces that he will take legal action this Saturday after the publication of a controversial tweet from LFI MP Marie Mesmeur, judged to justify the attacks on Israeli supporters that occurred in Amsterdam this Thursday. With the explosion of the controversy, the elected official denounced, for her part, a campaign of harassment following her tweet, and assured that these remarks did not justify the violence which occurred in the Dutch capital.
During the night from Thursday to Friday, several supporters of the Israeli football club were violently attacked by groups of individuals in the streets of Amsterdam, following a Europa League match between Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel Aviv. Violence described as anti-Semitic by the Israeli president, as well as several international leaders, including American President Joe Biden.
“Racist” supporters
On “These people were not lynched because they were Jewish, but because they were racist and supported a genocide,” replied, still on Naughty Marie Mesmeur.
The message caused an outcry on , for apology for crime.”
Before this report, Licra had also expressed its indignation, considering this “justification of pogromist violence” to be “serious”. “When we confuse terrorism and resistance, mass rape and heroism, no wonder we end up justifying lynching,” said former minister Laurence Rossignol.
Mesmeur denounces a “campaign of harassment”
In a press release released this Saturday evening, Marie Mesmeur reacted to the controversy, ensuring that her comments did not justify the violence and slogans which targeted Israeli supporters in Amsterdam. “I have always refused the idea that one could respond to violence with violence and physical aggression, whatever it may be, is intolerable,” she wrote.
L'Insoumise also declared that it was suffering a “vile campaign of harassment and insults from far-right networks” because of its tweet. “I have no lessons to learn from those who sully the necessary fight against anti-Semitism for their dirty political work or for their racist agenda,” continues the elected official. “Their dishonesty and their violence will never undermine my unwavering commitment against all forms of racism and anti-Semitism, wherever they come from. »
This Friday, President Emmanuel Macron “strongly” condemned the violence committed in Amsterdam. “France will continue to fight relentlessly against odious anti-Semitism,” the head of state added on the social network American President Joe Biden, for his part, described as “abject” the “anti-Semitic attacks against Israeli football fans” in Amsterdam, an event “which recalls dark moments in history, when Jews were persecuted”.
