The University of Strasbourg in turn banned, the day after Sciences-Po Paris, a conference by La France insoumise MEP Rima Hassan, which was scheduled for November 28, the elected official announced on Wednesday on the X network.
“The president of the University of Strasbourg Michel Deneken banned a conference that I was to give on Thursday, November 28 organized by the Palestine Unistras and Solidaires Étudiants committee and this without any justification,” she indicated in her post.
According to her, the students received an email telling them that “an unfavorable opinion has been issued regarding the organization” of the conference.
“Risk of disturbing public order”
“Conference permission has not been granted. There is a risk of disturbing public order,” the University of Strasbourg confirmed to AFP, specifying that “the response to the students who requested is in progress.”
The MEP indicated that an appeal would be filed to challenge this decision, just as an appeal was filed following the ban on Sciences-Po Paris.
The socialist municipal councilor of Strasbourg, Pernelle Richardot, expressed “all (her) support” for the president of the University of Strasbourg, “who has just made a courageous decision”, she wrote on time for our university to stop serving as a platform for supporting small Islamist groups! »
In April, the University of Lille banned a conference on the situation in Gaza that Rima Hassan, LFI member of the European Parliament, was to give with Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“Apologia for terrorism”?
The following month, it was Paris-Dauphine University which canceled a similar conference by Rima Hassan. Cancellation ultimately prohibited by the courts.
The MEP, who multiplies controversial statements about Israel, is the target of an investigation for “apology of terrorism” after having estimated after October 7 in an interview that it is “true” that the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas is carrying out action legitimate. A truncated interview extract, she assures.
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