“I have decided, in agreement with the rights holders of Simone Veil, to withdraw, on behalf of the Ile-de-France region, the Simone Veil prize from Zineb El Rhazoui,” wrote Valérie Pécresse, president of the Ile-de-France region. -de-France, this Sunday afternoon on X (ex-Twitter). At issue: publications, including “her retweet of a parallel between Auschwitz and the Israeli response against Hamas terrorists in Gaza”, deemed “outrageous and shocking” by the former minister.
The day before, Aurélien Veil, had called out the president of the region on the same social network, expressing indignation at this publication by mentioning Simone Veil, his “grandmother who spent several months, from April 1944 to January 1945, in survive in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp,” he wrote.
“Simone Veil Prize withdrawn for denouncing Israeli massacres in Gaza”
The Franco-Moroccan took note of this decision by modifying her biography on registered. However, she had responded to Aurélien Veil a few hours earlier.
“If the Simone Veil prize means being outraged only by the innocent victims of October 7, and not those of October 8, October 9, October 10, October 11… to this day, well I don’t care. I don’t want to, reacted on X Zineb El Rhazoui, in a long response. If the Simone Veil prize is to remain silent in the face of the internationally condemned criminal actions of #Netanyahu’s far-right government, I would be very happy to return it.”
And Zineb El Rhazoui continued: “On the other hand, if the Simone Veil prize means, as I believe, to defend human beings against mass crime perpetrated by any fanaticized regime, then I invite you to add your voice to the mine to defend the right of Palestinians to live in peace, free from occupation, colonization or tyranny.”