Rima Hassan, a French far-left member of the European Parliament, is arrested over a comment she posted on X last month about an attack on an Israeli airport in the 1970s, her fellow party member Jean-Luc Melenchon says.
Hassan and her lawyer do not immediately respond to requests for comment.
“The politics police has once again put Rima Hassan in custody in relation to a re-tweet from March. So there is no parliamentary immunity in France. Unbearable,” writes France Unbowed (LFI) leader Melenchon on X.
Le Parisien and other French media report authorities arrested Hassan and detained her in custody because they suspect the post made on March 26 could be construed as showing support for terrorism.
The message is related to the 1972 attack by the Japanese Red Army far-left militant group at Lod airport in Tel Aviv, which resulted in 26 deaths.
In her subsequently deleted post, Hassan quoted on her X account a comment made by an individual convicted of the attack seeking to justify it due to what he said was the “oppression” of people in the Palestinian territories.
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