The procession, which left from Lannemezan station (Hautes-Pyrénées), reached the penitentiary center to the sound of slogans such as Free Gaza, free Georges Abdallah.
In addition to the explosive situation in the Middle East, this action takes place in a particular context: French justice must render its decision on November 15 on a new request for conditional release from Georges Abdallah.
It's time for him to come out. Today he is on death row, sentenced to a slow death sentencecastigated Sylvie Ferrer, MP for France Insoumise, who was marching in the company of two other LFI MPs, Andrée Taurinya and Christophe Bex.
Among the demonstrators, who came by bus from Marseille, Paris, Bordeaux, Toulouse or Lyon, Françoise, retired from National Education, judged that it should not be possible to keep a man in prison in the country of human rights to obey American and Israeli pressure.
It is a political decision to leave him in prison. He represents the Palestinian resistance and is an emblem of French injustice on these issuesdeclared Alcine, accompanying students with disabilities (AESH) in Marseille, who came to demonstrate in Lannemezan for the first time.
Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1986 for complicity in the assassination of two diplomats, an American and an Israeli, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah is the world's oldest prisoner linked to the Middle East conflictaccording to his lawyer Jean-Louis Chalanset.
Also considered one of the oldest prisoners in France, the former leader of the Lebanese Revolutionary Armed Fractions has been behind bars since October 24, 1984, when he went to a Lyon police station, thinking he was being followed by killers. of Mossad.
Now aged 73, the former teacher, incarnation of the wave of attacks which hit France in the 1980s, has been available for release since 1999. All his requests for parole have been rejected. Only one was accepted in 2013 on condition that he was subject to an expulsion order, which was not done at the time.
