2024-07-25 18:51:00
Rima Hassan, the pro-Palestinian activist who has just been elected to the European Parliament, is making headlines. On Thursday, July 25, LR MEP François-Xavier Bellamy announced that he would file a complaint against his LFI colleagues “Threats and incitement to commit criminal or illegal acts against elected officials”He believes that Rima Hassan has it “Named for revenge in Islamic circles” On social networks.
In Brussels, European Parliament President Roberta Mesora launched an investigation into suspicions that Reema Hassan had violated the institution’s code of conduct. The French-Palestinian lawyer faces financial penalties and has been temporarily banned from working as a member of parliament.
The genesis of these steps was a few messages posted by Rima Hassan on X. For example, this one from Wednesday, July 24: “For now, François-Xavier Bellamy and his little friends, who are so close to the genocidal Israeli regime, sleep well at night. This will not last long”The day before, she had said this to François-Xavier Bellamy: “The cowardice that animates you here is the same empty, cunning look you had when I met you in the corridors of the European Parliament. Shiver. This is just the beginning. »
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Since she was locked down on Tuesday On July 23, one of the four vice-presidents of the Human Rights Council – whose political group brings together the radical left – could claim that the French elected official has stepped up his attacks on her LR colleague.
When François-Xavier Bellamy learned on Monday, July 22, that the Left had nominated Reema Hassan for the position, he took action to prevent it. He immediately contacted Manfred Weber, the chairman of the Christian Democratic group in the European People’s Party (EPP), to which LR belongs. He explained to her that having Reema Hassan as vice-chair of the Human Rights Committee would play into the hands of anti-Semites.
Manfred Weber did not want to renege on the agreement between the different political groups in the European Parliament, which distributes the responsibilities of chairpersons, vice-chairpersons and others within parliamentary committees according to the results of the European elections on June 9. But François-Xavier Bellamy managed to change his mind.
Especially because the Human Rights Committee, where the Qatargate scandal originated, is an important place of influence in the European Parliament for foreign countries seeking to defend their image or disparage the image of countries with which they are in conflict. From China to Turkey, via Morocco, the United Arab Emirates and India, diplomats and various pressure groups from all over the world maintain regular contacts there to defend their cause. In fact, it is this forum that launches monthly “resolutions” in Strasbourg that have no legislative value, but whose content receives the greatest attention outside the EU.
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