The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced on Tuesday October 17 that he was referring the matter to the public prosecutor “for apologizing for terrorism” against LFI MP Danièle Obono after her comments on Hamas, a “Islamist political group” Who “resists occupation” and fights for “the liberation of Palestine”according to her.
“Hamas, “a resistance movement”? No ! It’s a terrorist movement.”, wrote Gérald Darmanin on X (formerly Twitter)after the remarks of the LFI MP, on Sud Radio, a little earlier.
Pressed repeatedly by the journalist to say whether Hamas is “a resistance movement”Danièle Obono ends up responding: ” Yes “. “It’s a resistance movement that defines itself as such”she added.
Danièle Obono denounces “manipulations”
Statement immediately criticized on the left and right to the point that the MP published a message on “manipulations”. “I said that Hamas was an Islamist political group which declares its action to be part of the resistance to the occupation of Palestine. It is a fact. Neither an apology, nor support, nor condonation for his despicable war crimes against Israeli civilians”she explained.
“Okay, now that’s enough. What happened on Saturday October 7 in Israel had nothing to do with “resistance””, estimated the head of environmentalists, Marine Tondelier. For his part, LR President Eric Ciotti assured that Hamas was “a terrorist organization responsible for the massacre of elderly people, the beheading of children and the rape of Israeli women”.