French parliament suspends session after MP waves Palestinian flag

French leftist La France Insoumise (LFI) MP Sebastien Delogu waves a Palestinian national flag during a session of questions to the government at the National Assembly in Paris on May 28, 2024. (Miguel Medina/AFP)
French leftist La France Insoumise (LFI) MP Sebastien Delogu waves a Palestinian national flag during a session of questions to the government at the National Assembly in Paris on May 28, 2024. (Miguel Medina/AFP)

The head of France’s National Assembly suspends the afternoon session of the lower house of parliament after Sebastien Delogu, a deputy of the hard-left Les Insoumis (LFI) party, waves a Palestinian flag to draw attention to the situation in Gaza.

“This is not tolerable,” French National Assembly President Yael Braun-Pivet says as she suspended the session.

“We will continue to carry the voices of peace everywhere, all the time,” the LFI party later writes on X, where it posted the video of the incident.

The incident took place as junior French trade minister Franck Riester was answering a question about the situation in Gaza.

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