Pro-Palestinian activists demonstrated on Friday against the visit of Yaël Braun-Pivet, president of the National Assembly, to Lyon 3 University. Slogans hostile to Israel and the president of the National Assembly were spray painted there.
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“Yaël get out of it”, “Free Gaza” or “Free Palestine”, this is the content of the comments tagged during the night near the University of Lyon 3, before the visit of the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun Pivet.
In the middle of the afternoon, several dozen demonstrators continued in the same vein, chanting “criminal Israel, Yaël complicit” or “Yaël, get out of there, Lyon 3 is not yours” near the ‘university.
The president of the lower house was expected at 5:00 p.m. for an exchange with students from a university association.
The Solidaires and Unef student unions and young local LFIs denounced the arrival of the Macronist leader, calling her “an eminent figure of unconditional support for the criminal actions of the Israeli state” in a press release.
“While the deaths caused by Israel’s operations number in the tens of thousands (more than 41,000 dead!) Yaël Braun-Pivet once again dared to defend the delivery of weapons to a criminal state,” highlight the signatories of the press release.
On October 6, on BFMTV, Yael Braun-Pivet declared that “we should not disarm Israel”, in reaction to statements by Emmanuel Macron calling for an end to deliveries of weapons used to carry out fighting in Gaza.
The Minister of the Interior reacted with a tweet, affirming that “the Republic is at home everywhere” and denouncing an “unbearable fascist drift”.
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