French-Palestinian MEP to be tried for ‘advocating terrorism’ in X post
Rima Hassan, a French far-left member of the European Parliament, will face trial in July over a comment she posted on X last month about a 1970s attack on an Israeli airport, the Paris prosecutor’s office said late on Thursday.
Authorities arrested Hassan and detained her in custody for several hours on Thursday because they suspected the post made on March 26 and later erased could be construed as showing support for terrorism.
“At the end of her custody, Rima Hassan was given a summons to appear before the criminal court on July 7, 2026, to be tried on charges of advocating terrorism committed online,” the office said in an emailed statement.
Hassan’s message was related to the 1972 attack by the Japanese Red Army far-left militant group at Lod airport in Tel Aviv, resulting in 26 deaths.
In the post, Hassan had quoted on her X account a comment made by an individual who was convicted for the attack and sought to justify it by citing what he said was the oppression of people in the Palestinian territories.
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