“Faced with a very serious challenge to our fundamental freedoms”, Manuel Bompard relayed the call from Mathilde Panot organizing a rally for freedom of expression, Tuesday April 30. The accusations against Mathilde Panot follow the press release published by La France Insoumise the day After the October 7 attack by Hamas against Israel. While Jean-Luc Mélenchon is the subject of a complaint for public insults from the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Sylvie Retailleau, Manuel Bompard deplores a deleterious climate.
Manuel Bompard denounces the exploitation of the crime of apologizing for terrorism
“It is not possible for this offense of glorifying terrorism to be used to prevent any historical perspective of an event,” explains Manuel Bompard, who would like to see this offense “removed from common law.” Above all, for the LFI coordinator, the summons of Mathilde Panot is part of a “desire to silence on the part of the political power in place”. The rebellious MP defends himself on the merits, recalling that they condemned the actions of October 7 and their “terrorist modus operandi”. In addition, Manuel Bompard underlines the hierarchical domination of the Minister of Justice over the public prosecutors. The Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti had also published a circular on October 10 to provide a rapid criminal response to “comments praising Hamas attacks”. The Franco-Palestinian activist Rima Hassan, in seventh position on the list of rebellious France for the European elections, is also summoned.
“I am tired of the intellectual laziness of the debate and the media treatment”
Manuel Bompard also reacted strongly to the accusations targeting Jean-Luc Mélenchon, while Sylvie Retailleau announced yesterday that she was going to file a complaint for public insults. “Jean-Luc Mélenchon has never compared the president of the University of Lille to a Nazi. He made reference to the work of Hannah Arendt,” defends Manuel Bompard. After the cancellation of a conference on Palestine in Lille, Jean-Luc Mélenchon castigated the decision of the president of the University of Lille, making references to Hannah Arendt’s reflections on “the banality of evil” and taking up the evocation of Adolf Eichmann who said he only obeyed the laws.
“I am tired of the intellectual laziness of the debate and media treatment,” continues the LFI coordinator. Concerning the complaint that the Minister of Higher Education and Research wishes to file, Manuel Bompard judges that Sylvie Retailleau “would do better to take care of the state of our universities in France rather than making crazy statements”. While he describes this complaint as ridiculous, Manuel Bompard is alarmed by a decline in fundamental freedoms and a growing hostility towards his party.
