cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45395885
Apr 02, 2026
Police in Paris apprehended and briefly detained European Parliament Member Rima Hassan Thursday on suspicion of “apology for terrorism”—an allegation critics slammed as “judicial harassment” aimed at silencing her outspoken criticism of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and the French government’s support for it.
The Sorbonne-educated jurist was one of the leaders of the June 2025 Gaza Freedom Flotilla Madleen mission, along with climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and others. Hassan and others aboard the Madleen were intercepted by Israeli forces and arrested in international waters as they attempted to deliver food, children’s prosthetics, and other desperately needed supplies to Gaza’s besieged and starving people. Hassan said that she was beaten in Israeli custody.
While far-right and pro-Israel French lawmakers celebrated Hassan’s detention and called for her to be stripped of parliamentary immunity, Palestine defenders condemned the arrest.
Police in Paris apprehended and briefly detained European Parliament Member Rima Hassan Thursday on suspicion of “apology for terrorism”
While far-right and pro-Israel French lawmakers celebrated Hassan’s detention and called for her to be stripped of parliamentary immunity,
How can she be detained while having parliamentary immunity? If that’s as illegal as I expect then that’s a dangerous precedent and the celebrating pro-Israel French lawmakers are beyond stupid because it is a threat to everybody.
Members of the Parliament of France enjoy irresponsibility for what they did as parliamentarians, and partial inviolability – that is, severe restrictions for the police or justice to arrest or detain them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_immunity
She is not a member of the French parliament but that shouldn’t make any difference.
