The war between Hamas and Israel continues to inflame the hemicycle of the Palais Bourbon. In a letter sent Thursday to the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, 39 deputies from the environmental groups, PS and LFI demand the lifting of the parliamentary immunity of their colleague Meyer Habib (LR).
In question ? a sentence on Gaza pronounced by the deputy for the 8th constituency of French people established outside France during the government questions session on Tuesday.
Meyer Habib accused of “apology for war crimes”
“While the Minister (of Foreign Affairs Catherine Colonna) was invited to react to the death of a Quai d’Orsay agent following Israeli bombings on a residential building housing civilians, MP Meyer Habib distinctly pronounced , and twice, the words: “And it’s not over!” “, comments that could “akin to the apology of war crimes”, believe the authors of the letter.
The latter demand “a heavy disciplinary penalty” against Meyer Habib, as well as the meeting of the commission responsible for article 26 of the application of the Constitution “so that it examines the lifting of [son] parliamentary immunity”.
A “gross manipulation” according to MP LR
According to the report of the session, MP LR launched “And it’s not over” in response to a question from MP Éric Coquerel (LFI). “Who can now doubt the real war objectives of the Netanyahu government which, after the north, is bombing the south of the Gaza Strip, precisely where it had asked the Palestinians to take refuge? », Asked Éric Coquerel to the head of diplomacy. Still according to the report, Meyer Habib made the same response when Éric Coquerel asked: “Who can doubt now that it is less a question of eradicating Hamas than of putting an end to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, as Palestinian territories? “.
Meyer Habib, for his part, denounced a “gross manipulation” of the 39 deputies of the Nupes. “Their damp squib is only a crude counter-fire to try to forget the repeated apology for terrorism, the negationism and anti-Semitism at work in their ranks since October 7 but also their silence in the face of the pogroms , rape, massacres of babies, old people and Holocaust survivors,” he said.