They had promised him, despite the threats launched by the Ministry of Interior. On Monday a dozen French municipalities They have maintained their purpose and have dawn with the Palestine flag dressing their facades.
The black, white, red and green flag already ONDA the most municipalities of the Parisian suburbssuch as Nanterre, Bagneux, Gennevilliers, Ivry-Sur-Seine, Corbeil-Esonnes or Saint-Denis. Precisely, the mayor of this last commune, Mathieu Hanotin, denied that it was “a long -term militant act”, but a gesture on the day when France will recognize the state of Palestine in front of the UN General Assembly in New York.
“Tonight, the President of the Republic will announce at the UN the recognition of the state of Palestine. Nantes supports this historical decision of the French Republic raising, during this day, the Palestinian flag,” the Monday wrote on Monday the Socialist mayor of Nantes, Johanna Rollandthrough his X profile.
As Nantes, Saint-Denis y Lille The instructions of the Socialist leader Olivier Faurewho encouraged his mayor to hang the flag. Although others, such as the mayor of Saint-Ouen, Karim Bouamrane, also intend to raise Israel, as a sign of the will to reach a peace agreement.
A gesture that led the Paris City Council on Sunday night. At 9pm, the Torre Eiffel went out and showed Both flags With one PAZ BLANCA PALOMA.
21 municipalities join the initiative
At 9 am on Monday, the Ministry of Interior identified 21 municipalities, of the 34,875 municipalities, that had participated in this initiative despite the ban.
The outgoing minister, Bruno Retailleau, had ordered the prefects at the end of the week to prohibit the deployment of the Palestinian flag on behalf of the principles of “Public Service Neutrality” and avoid interference in French foreign policy, exclusive competence of the State. Retailleau threatened them with an administrative sanction in case of carrying out this action.
A gesture that has not laid anything well among the ranks of the position. He socialist Olivier Faure He denounced the “indecency” of Bruno Retilleau. “I’m sorry that the minister has not found another option to try to condemn mayors who fulfill their duty of solidarity; it is a form of demonstration,” lamented the National Secretary of the Socialist Party on a visit on Monday to the City of Saint-Denis. “How can we say today that this is a representable act if we do not condemn what is happening in Gaza?” He criticized, and pointed out the minister’s contradictions.
Criticism of colonization
Not only does politics divide on the conflict between Israel and Palestine, so does a historically polarized French population. This Monday, the France-Palestine Solidarity Association presented A complaint against Franco-Israelí citizens, accused of complicity in war crimes and humanity for participating, and for supporting colonization in the territories occupied by Israel, according to the association’s lawyer, Sarah Sameur.
The complaint with the National Anti -Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office of Paris, competent in terms of crimes against humanity, identifies a total of “six people “that could be prosecuted, Sameur explained. This complaint is directed specifically against Two Franco-Israeli settlers and its organizations, related to Extreme Israeli right. The association expects that, through this process, justice can open a legal front in France against Israeli colonization of the Palestinian territories, condemned by the UN.
Meanwhile, from the other side, the Israel ambassador to France, Joshua Zarka, regretted that President Emmanuel Macron is giving the back to the Israelis when recognizing the state of Palestine. “It is a difficult day because I feel that the French president is turning our backs (…) is a decision that complicates much more the possibility of advancing in peace between us,” he said in an interview for BFMTV.
To criticism about the recognition of France from the State of Palestine, a and signed by about twenty French personalities, Among them Philippe Torreton, Joann Sfar, Arthur or Charlotte Gainsbourg, in which they ask the President to sign the recognition put conditions, such as the “liberation of the hostages” and “the elimination of Hamas”.
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