2023-11-06 09:22:00
In the program “Coffee without filter” on LN24 and LN Radio, the environmentalist returned to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Concerning Hamas’ membership in a terrorist group, she made comments that did not go unnoticed: “It (Hamas, Editor’s note) never stops committing attacks. But I don’t use the term ‘terrorist’ because it has a legal meaning that I don’t know,” she declared. Before adding: “I have no problem qualifying the attacks perpetrated by Hamas of ‘terrorists, barbaric and reprehensible acts’”.
But this release shocked some and several political figures reacted immediately on social networks.
Zakia Khattabi: “I don’t use the term ‘terrorist’ to describe Hamas because it has a legal meaning that I don’t know”
Denis Ducarme, MR federal deputy, thus spoke of a “serious error”. “The European Union, which has established a specific list, qualifies Hamas as a terrorist organization. Our federal minister is making a big, very big mistake by turning away from the EU on such serious issues,” he commented. .
For his part, the federal deputy of Engagés Georges Dallemagne also criticized the comments made by Zakia Khattabi. “From now on, each minister will do what he pleases with regard to the list of organizations officially recognized as terrorist by the EU? Where are we going…?”, he asks on X.
Theo Francken (N-VA) also commented on the outing on social networks, questioning the Prime Minister. “Kahttabi is a member of the Belgian government. Can your minister stay in office, Alexander De Croo?” he says.
Joël Rubinfeld, president of the Belgian League once morest Anti-Semitism, also reacted. “Thank you for this clarification Zakia Khattabi. So 2 things: firstly, you do not know much regarding the law, secondly the former anti-terrorism judge Marc Trévidic dismantled in the blink of an eye your fallacious argument on the alleged absence of ‘ legal meaning’ of the term ‘terrorist’. When I think that we were on the verge of having you in the Constitutional Court….”, he said.
Eco-friendly and… Zakia Khattabi react
Note that given the extent of the controversy, Zakia Khattabi wanted to return to her comments later in the morning. “The subject is too serious to make it a controversy. I unambiguously condemned the acts of 7/10 as a terrorist attack. On the qualification, I said exactly: ‘I do not know the legal qualification’. From then on that it exists, clear alignment with it”, indicates the environmentalist minister, who shares in her post the definition made by the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Ecolo also commented on the matter, reaffirming: “Hamas is a terrorist organization recognized as such by the Council of the European Union and our contact parliamentarians on this issue have always been unambiguous on this subject.”
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