Insoumis at point on support for « flotilla for Gaza » – Liberation

He will have spent his Pentecost weekend on his networks. Since Saturday, at regular intervals, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had his subscribers of the slightest event concerning The fate of the humanitarian boat Madleenwho tried to rally Gaza and with, on board, among the 12 activists, the activist Greta Thunberg and the rebellious MEP Rima Hassan. « Netanyahu threatens our little boat with Rima Hassan, Greta Thunberg and ten teammateshe wrote in a first post published Sunday on X and Telegram. France must take responsibility. Our French Navy must intervene and enforce international law and our endangered nationals. ” A good fifteen messages written or relayed and intended to support members of crews or denounce the Israeli Prime Minyumin Netanyahu, or « Those who look elsewhere ».

Since the departure of this « Flotilla » Activist, the rebellious people multiply digital operations to publicize and disseminate the subject. This Monday, they call for several rallies, everywhere in France, at the end of the day, in support of « Freedom flotilla » And « Against the genocide in Gaza ». It even became their main subject of political struggle of the moment, much more than the UN summit on the protection of the oceans, the subject on which Jean-Luc Mélenchon had nevertheless attacked his 2022 campaign during an « immersive » meeting in Nantes just over three years ago. The triple presidential candidate still enabled himself a little reminder to the Head of State in response to a message from the latter on X arriving aboard the Thalassa in Nice … But so that he also looks at the east side of the Mediterranean: « Macron president you arrive four years after rebellious on ocean problemshe wrote Sunday evening. Do not also arrive late to enforce international law existing at sea. Netanyahu and Israel Katz have no right to threaten or arrest the small boat with a French parliamentarian, Rima Hassan. The blockade is a means of the genocide. You must protect the anti -blockade boat. « 

Pushing Macron to react: the instruction has passed within the movement. Guest Monday morning from BFM TV and RMC, MEP Manon Aubry denounced the « Complico silence » European leaders including Emmanuel Macron after the interception in the night by the Israeli authorities of Madleen. “What the Israeli government has just done is illegal with regard to international law in several respects. Firstly because they were arrested in international waters. (…) Then, because my colleague Rima Hassan benefits from parliamentary immunity ”developed the president of the Left group in the European Parliament.

« All communications have been cut »said Manon Aubry, saying that he had no contact with his parliamentary colleague since the middle of the night. She says she called the French president, Emmanuel Macron, the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, and that of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to pass to « Action » For « Ask for the fastest possible release of the crew of the»» Freedom flotilla «  »otherwise they will also have to account for their complicity ”.

For her part, the president of the group rebellious in the assembly, Mathilde Panot, denounced on X « What the supremacist Netanyahu does to the crew illegally » Before criticizing the French position to ask Israel a return of nationals « as soon as possible » :: « So Macron’s only response to an army that illegally stops a humanitarian boat with the presence of a French elected official on the orders of a man prosecuted by an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court, is that and only? »

If they are more vocal and better organized on the networks, the rebellious are not the only ones on the left to be indignant at these arrests. The National Secretary of Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, called for « An international popular mobilization » For « Bring the States to commit to their protection and their release ». “The crew reached its goal. He must now be supported by European states. The silence of governments would be a fault ”reacted for his part the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, on X. « The Israeli government adds indignity to inhumanity »added the leader of the Communist Party, Fabien Roussel.