2023-10-10 21:37:47
The New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) is the target of an investigation for advocating terrorism after its press release reacting to the Hamas attack against Israel, announced Tuesday the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, in the program “Quotidien” on TMC.
The national center for the fight against online hatred of the Paris prosecutor’s office contacted the criminal brigade of the Paris judicial police for a press release released on Saturday, in which the NPA had affirmed “its support for the Palestinians and the means of struggle that they chose to resist.” “Intifada!” », concluded the far-left party.
A position defended by Olivier Besancenot, spokesperson for the NPA. “No more than yesterday we are apologizing for the killings of civilians or the kidnappings of Hamas which we have always condemned,” he declared. on in the wake of the controversy. “The only apology we are guilty of is that of our unwavering support for the struggle of the Palestinian people against Israeli colonization. »
The NPA assumes
In another press release published Monday, the New Anticapitalist Party of Philippe Poutou reiterated its positions, considering the struggle of the Palestinian people “legitimate”.
“The number of civilian victims and the battle of figures and images are rightly shocking, but must not make us forget that these latest events surrounding the Gaza offensive can only be appreciated in the light of the situation tragedy of the Palestinian people,” the party wrote.
“The political and ideological project, the strategy and the means of struggle of Hamas are not those of the NPA. We denounce the killings of civilians carried out by Hamas and deplore all Israeli or Palestinian civilian victims, and denounce all war crimes,” the text continued.
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