The president of the Senate files a complaint for defamation and insult against Rima Hassan – Liberation
« Gérard Larcher is a crapule ». For these words published on the social network X, Rima Hassan makes Again the subject of legal proceedings. This is what the daily newspaper reveals this Saturday May 17 the Parisiansaying that President LR of the Senate had filed a complaint on April 16 against the MEP of France rebellious for this publication posted five days earlier, April 11. According to the daily life, Gérard Larcher has just seized the prosecutor of the Republic of Paris, Laure Beccuau. The entourage of the Republican confirmed the filing of a complaint and the seizure of the prosecutor to the AFP, without giving more precision.
If Rima Hassan wrote this post (Always visible online) is that on April 10, the president of the upper room had estimated « What conditions » were not gathered « To go further in the recognition of a Palestinian State ». « We still have hostages in the Gaza Strip, we always have attacks by Hamas, we unfortunately have an extremely weak Palestinian authority », had argued Gérard Larcher at the microphone of Europe 1. « Are the conditions met so that we go later in the essential recognition of the reality of a state of Palestine ? No », had he added.
The next day, Rima Hassan commented on this statement, not without irony: « Translation: we use the status quo in the hope that the feasibility of a Palestinian state disappears, we maintain the illusion of a two -state solution while waiting for it to be no longer possible to have a Palestinian State ». Before concluding: « Gérard Larcher is a crapule ».
For Gérard Larcher, whose Parisian cited the mail addressed to the Paris prosecutor dated April 16, these remarks are « Offensive » And « In contradiction with sincere support for a solution based on two states » that he has been supporting for over 10 years. Indeed, in October 2014when Gérard Larcher was appointed to the head of the upper chamber, the Senate had adopted by a short majority, a resolution (purely symbolic) for the recognition of the State of Palestine by France.
