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French politician gets 4-month suspended sentence for calling October 7 ‘resistance’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleCanaan Lidor is a former Jewish World reporter at The Times of Israel
A French court hands a four-month suspended sentence to a former city council member from the Lyon area for calling Hamas’s October 7 onslaught an “act of resistance.”
The sentence handed out Tuesday by the Correctional Tribunal of Grenoble to Mohamed Makni, a Socialist Party representative and former council member from the suburb of Échirolles, is for “advocating terrorism,” the judge writes.
But the court does not bar Makni, who is not longer on the city council following his suspension by a majority of members due to his trial, from holding public office.
Makni, who has not retracted his remarks on the onslaught, declares his innocence as he walks out of the courtroom and vows to appeal the sentence, France Bleu reports.
Hours after the attack in which Hamas terrorists murdered some 1,200 people in Israel and abducted 253, Makdi put out a text in Arabic and French stating that “he who sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind, and contempt and arrogance will not go unpunished.”
The onslaught, he added, was “a clear act of resistance.”
The Times of Israel Community.