2023-10-18 20:57:10
An investigation was opened after a complaint filed by the leader of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon for malicious telephone calls and death threats, in connection with the Israel-Hamas war, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday, confirming information of Liberation.
According to Libération, the Insoumis telephone number was published on a far-right site and Mr. Mélenchon subsequently received dozens of threatening calls and messages. His postal and telephone details were still accessible there on Wednesday, “obviously extracted from the file of a public administration”, according to the newspaper.
“Obvious and total solidarity with Jean-Luc Mélenchon,” Socialist Party boss Olivier Faure declared on Nupes).
Jean-Luc Mélenchon has been under fire since he refused to describe the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas as a “terrorist” organization, after its attack ten days ago against Israel. More broadly, Tuesday during a press conference at the National Assembly, the head of the rebellious deputies Mathilde Panot indicated that at least “around fifteen parliamentarians were threatened with death”.
She had specified that “three of ours are under telephone raid with absolutely constant calls. One of ours whose family was targeted and directly threatened with death, and at least fifteen parliamentarians are directly threatened with death. Each time we file complaints.”
The unprecedented Hamas attack left more than 1,400 people dead in Israel, most of them civilians killed on the day of the Hamas attack, which also kidnapped 199 people according to the Israeli army.
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On the Palestinian side, at least 3,478 people were killed in Israeli retaliatory strikes on the Gaza Strip, according to local Hamas authorities, who did not specify whether this toll included the victims of a rocket attack on a Gazan hospital on Tuesday. evening.
The war between Hamas and Israel has plunged the French left back into deep crisis. Torn over their values, the Nupes parties accuse each other of breaking their fragile union.
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