2023-11-03 20:50:38
The party proclaimed its “support for the Palestinians and the means of struggle they have chosen to resist”. The publication director of the NPA site, Julien Salingue, was heard Thursday in the investigation for apologizing for terrorism opened against the party after the publication of a press release reacting to the Hamas attack against Israel on October 7, he indicated Friday in a press release. A hearing confirmed by the Paris prosecutor’s office.
The party indicates in its press release that this investigation follows “following reports against the NPA, via the Pharos platform, by four associations, Licra, Avocats sans frontières, the National Bureau of Vigilance against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA) and the European Jewish Organization (EJO). » “The alleged facts concern the publication of a press release on Saturday October 7, entitled Gaza Offensive: we are all Palestinians,” we recall. In this statement, the NPA “recalled its support for the Palestinians and the means of struggle they have chosen to resist.”
The NPA “outraged and revolted” by this accusation
“In a context of bans on demonstrations and public meetings, the pressure, including judicial pressure, exerted by the government on the movement of solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people is not surprising and is not limited to the NPA alone », Estimates the party.
“On the other hand, we can only be outraged and revolted by the accusation of glorifying terrorism launched against our organization, given the solidarity that we express and the principles and means of action that we defend,” adds the NPA. The party thus indicated on Friday that its support for the Palestinians “includes the right to resistance in the face of oppression”, but “does not mean support for all actions carried out”, in particular in the event of “indiscriminate crimes against civilians”. e·s, even in a context of war.”
This led the NPA “to denounce the killings orchestrated by Hamas – an organization whose political and ideological project we do not share, nor the strategy, nor the methods of action such as those employed on October 7,” the statement further specifies. movement to which former presidential election candidates Philippe Poutou and Olivier Besancenot belong.
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