“Israel assassin, BNP complicit”: around fifty people demonstrated on Saturday morning on the Grand Place in Lille against the war in Gaza, and against the French bank BNP Paribas accused of participating in the financing of the Israeli state in conflict with terrorists of Palestinian Hamas, which the bank denies.
The demonstration was held in front of a BNP Paribas agency, at the call of the France-Palestine Solidarity Association (AFPS) which was joined by the local Attac committees.
The AFPS accuses “several French banks” of supporting the Israeli offensive “by raising funds from these banks to the Israeli state, not directly to the state but to Israeli banks or investment companies in the settlements [implantations] and also to the Israeli army.”
“BNP Paribas is not involved in any way in the conflict in the Middle East. We refute the allegations made against us, it is defamatory to assert that BNP Paribas is in any way financing this conflict,” BNP Paribas responded in an email to AFP on Saturday.
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