“Yaël get out of there”, we could read among the tags, including many “Free Gaza” or “Free Palestine”, written during the night near the establishment.
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.
“Prominent figure of unconditional support for Israel”
The president of the lower house is expected this Friday afternoon for an exchange with students from a university association, after a trip to the Rhône to Neuville-sur-Saône as part of the open policy of the Parliament exterior.
Several left-wing organizations, including solidarity student unions and Unef or 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.