According to Bernalicis, the repression of the apology for terrorism is liberticidal: “Which democracy can still preserve its name when anti-terrorism methods are used to repress political activists, community activists, journalists or even trade unionists? »
This proposal immediately ignited social networks and the entire political class. “It’s difficult to be more despicable,” said Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau. Several deputies from the presidential camp once again questioned the PS on its alliance with Mélenchon's party in the New Popular Front.
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Jérôme Guedj, socialist deputy for Essonne, very critical of this alliance, believes that the LFI proposal is a “shipwreck”: “They got lost in the ambiguity – a mild euphemism – of their relationship to terrorism” . Jean-Luc Mélenchon, for his part, deplores “a new aggression against LFI, coming from the extreme right and slavishly taken up by the media-political officialdom.” Hear, in his Newspeak, all the other political parties and the media.
The debate around this offense has been lively for ten years and many jurists or associations have often pointed out the “perverse effects” of the modification initiated by Bernard Cazeneuve. Anti-terrorism judge Marc Trévidic criticized “a totally misused use of the law”, the fact that a “ a simple tag in support of Palestine puts you in jail.”
A CGT leader from the North, Jean-Paul Delescaut, was given a one-year suspended prison sentence for comments in a leaflet supporting the Palestinians. There is therefore room for debate, but the LFI proposal is shocking in that it emerges in a burning context since the Hamas pogrom on October 7, 2023 in Israel, followed by a monstrous Israeli military response in the Gaza Strip. .
In this context, several LFI elected officials have been held accountable for their incendiary remarks, notably LFI MEP Rima Hassan for whom Hamas is “taking legitimate action”. LFI plays a communitarian card and does not hesitate to cross the red lines of Islamism, as shown by the very in-depth investigation by journalist Omar Youssef Souleimane, which also shows how Palestine has become the alibi of the Islamists.
