Gauthier Delomez
9pm, November 13, 2024
On the sidelines of the visit of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs to a site managed by France in Israel, two gendarmes were arrested by the Israeli police and then released. A “deplorable” diplomatic incident which must not be repeated, reacts the Israeli ambassador to France at the microphone of Europe 1.
Last November, the visit of Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to Israel experienced a diplomatic incident. As the French minister was to enter Eleona, a French-run pilgrimage site, two French gendarmes were briefly arrested by Israeli police. “A deplorable incident that should never have happened,” said Joshua Zarka, Israeli ambassador to France, guest on the show. Europe 1 Evening.
This incident caused the ambassador to be summoned by the Quai d’Orsay. “We have agreed that an event like this will not be repeated,” he says on Europe 1, stressing that there is a disagreement between the two countries “regarding the exact status” of this site.
Canada
