Hamas-Israel War: Darmanin announces that an investigation for condoning terrorism targets the NPA

2023-10-11 04:33:48

After its press release reacting to the Hamas attack against Israel, the New Anti-Capitalist Party will have to explain itself. The NPA is in fact the target of an investigation for advocating terrorism, announced Tuesday the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, in the TMC show Quotidien.

The national center for the fight against online hatred (PNLH) of the Paris public prosecutor’s office contacted the criminal brigade of the Paris judicial police, said a source close to the case.

The NPA strongly criticizes “Israeli strategy”

This investigation targets a press release from the far-left party released on Saturday, in which it “recalled its support for the Palestinians and the means of struggle that they have chosen to resist”. “The Israeli strategy, called the ‘lawn mower,’ actually consists of physically and regularly eliminating new generations of activists and opponents of the occupation, in an endless cycle of repetition,” wrote the NPA, adding: “This time, the offensive is on the side of the resistance.” “Intifada!” », concluded the far-left party.

The Minister of the Interior added, without specifying, having made “several reports” to the courts for similar facts.

“Isn’t selling arms to Qatar and Saudi Arabia, countries known for financing international Islamist terrorism, advocating terrorism? », reacted on the social network .

Darmanin’s tackle on LFI on the subject of anti-Semitism

The day before, following a meeting with representatives of the Jewish community in France and the security services, the Minister of the Interior had warned that he reserved the possibility of using article 40 (to denounce facts or remarks to the courts) and “to initiate dissolution procedures whatever the structures”.

“We have had from collectives, from associations and sometimes from political parties, absolutely despicable comments calling for hatred, intifada, the apology of terrorism,” he said, without mentioning names. As he was also asked on Tuesday if “Insoumise France was anti-Semitic”, Gérald Darmanin replied: “It has not demonstrated the opposite”.