Sophia Chikirou, LFI deputy, criticized for paying tribute to the Hamas leader

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2024-08-03 12:08:55

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, with LFI-NFP representatives, Manuel Bompard, Sophia Chikirou and Paul Vannier, at the National Assembly on July 9, 2024.

Many socialist leaders were outraged by a message from Sophia Chikirou, deputy of La France insoumise (LFI) close to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who said on his personal Instagram account a tribute to Hamas leader Ismaël Haniyeh, who killed, Wednesday 31 July, in Tehran. in the strike against Israel.

The New Popular Front Program (NFP) “Make it clear”estimated, Thursday onThe first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, referred to the “rebellious” deputy “Provocations that have the only effect of the arguments that cause if it destroys the work is the work” and the words of “The only”.

The socialist president of the Occitanie region, Carole Delgaholding the line of rupture with LFI, expressed his anger on the same social network. “Key”he wrote, see in it a “Apology for terrorism” and one “Mouth for Jew Hatred”.

He lamented that the “NFP contracts and agreements”an electoral alliance which allowed the four-left party PS, LFI, PCF and ecology to be first in the legislative elections, without an absolute majority however, is once again. “pressed” and socialist values “insult”.

“I will not work with elected officials, a party that approves or refuses to condemn such situations”declared, for his part, the leader of the PS of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignolpublicly opposed from 2022 to the association of his party with that of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

Complaint registration

Screenshots of the personal Instagram account of MP LFI from Paris were published on X without Sophia Chikirou denying that she had written this four-page tribute to the leader of Hamas, originally published by the Palestinian Authority.

This tribute “you should be removed from political life. This kind of indifference, frequent in your group, must have no place in our Republic. “responded on Saturday August 3 at the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Lycra), announcing to accept his legal counsel.

Association of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) also announced in the press release a complaint for “apology of terrorism”.

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