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Members of Hassan’s La France Insoumise social gathering condemn detention as a part of effort to ‘intimidate’ Palestine supporters.

European Parliament member Rima Hassan has been detained in France on suspicion of “apology for terrorism”, French media retailers are reporting, in a transfer members of her left-wing La France Insoumise (LFI) social gathering say goals to silence Palestine supporters.

Le Parisien newspaper reported on Thursday that Hassan was detained in relation to an investigation right into a social media put up that referenced Kozo Okamoto, who took half in a lethal assault at Israel’s Ben Gurion Worldwide Airport in 1972.

Hassan had deleted the put up on X, Le Parisien mentioned.

Jean-Luc Melenchon, the founding father of LFI, mentioned in a social media put up on Thursday that Hassan’s detention associated to a retweet from final month. “So there is no such thing as a longer parliamentary immunity in France. Insupportable,” he wrote on X.

Le Parisien and the AFP information company additionally reported {that a} small quantity of “artificial medication” was discovered on Hassan when she was taken into police custody.

Hassan and her lawyer didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark from the Reuters information company on her detention.

Hassan, a French-Palestinian lawyer and activist, was elected to the European Parliament in 2024.

The 33-year-old has been a outstanding critic of Israel’s genocidal warfare in opposition to Palestinians within the Gaza Strip, and he or she took half in a Gaza-bound flotilla that was intercepted by Israeli forces in worldwide waters in October 2025.

Her Palestine advocacy has drawn the ire of pro-Israel teams and figures in France and different nations.

Final week, Hassan mentioned she was denied entry to Canada, the place she was anticipated to participate in conferences and talking engagements, in what she described as an act of censorship.

In late March, Matthias Renault, a French politician with the far-right Rassemblement nationwide (Nationwide Rally) social gathering, mentioned he alerted the chief prosecutor in Paris about Hassan’s X put up that referenced Okamoto.

Renault welcomed Hassan’s detention on Thursday, writing on social media: “Lastly the start of the top of impunity for the LFI MP!”.

However lawmakers and officers from Hassan’s social gathering condemned her detention.

“The French police and justice system are getting used to intimidate those that help the Palestinian folks,” mentioned Sophia Chikirou, an LFI MP within the French Nationwide Meeting, the decrease home of parliament.

Mathilde Panot, an MP who heads the LFI delegation within the Nationwide Meeting, mentioned that in President Emmanuel Macron’s France, “the criminalisation of political opponents has reached a brand new degree”.

“This relentless assault, trampling on probably the most basic rights, should finish instantly,” Panot wrote on X.