Who are the six French people arrested by Israel aboard the boat? – release

They could not reach Gaza. Left Sicily on June 1 to join the Palestinian enclave and « break » the Israeli blockade, the twelve members of the Madleen have been Arrested in the open sea on the night of Sunday 8 to Monday June 9 by the Israeli navy. Six French had taken place aboard this humanitarian aid boat. They should be returned to France in the coming hours. Journalists, elected, doctor, engineer … Liberty Put their profiles.

It is, by far, the most media face of the sailboat with the Swedish Greta Thunberg. Franco-Palestinian and a rebellious MEP, Rima Hassan chronized live on her social networks the arrest of the boat late on Sunday, from the arrival of the Israeli navy to overflight by a drone of the boat, as she did since he left Sicily. Since his election to the European Parliament in June 2024, the elected representative of 33 years has continued to denounce THE « genocide » led by Israel in Gaza.

Reporter for Blast For a little over two years, Yanis Mahmdi has embarked on June 1 aboard the ship for « Inform the public of a courageous and remarkable initiative aimed at establishing a humanitarian link with Gaza and to denounce a food blockade by the Israeli army which aims to exterminate the Gazan population »explains the online media in an article. The editorial staff provides to be without news from him since his arrest in the night. On the boat, he made short videos from other crew members.

He documented live arrest. Second journalist of the boat, the French Omar Faiad was live on the Qatarian television channel in Arabic al-Jazeera when the Israeli navy went on board. We see it on the images with the hands in the air, visibly frightened, before its camera falls and the signal cuts.

He embarked in early June to « Take care of the crew ». Doctor at the Timone Hospital in Marseille, Baptiste André is a specialist in internal medicine, explains France 3 Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur. On a video shot on the boat before the arrest, we see it film, brown hair in the wind and round glasses on the nose, showing its French passport. « If you see this video, it is because I was kidnapped by Israeli forces or forces of countries accomplices to Israeli genocide in Palestine »explains the 35 -year -old Frenchman.

A year ago, Reva Seifert-Viard had spent thirty-nine days perched in a tree. He was one of the « squirrels»Who opposed the A69 sitein the Tarn. He had done this in December to denounce, this time, the Creation of a high voltage line between Bordeaux and Bilbao. On June 1, the environmental activist (in the extinction rebellion in particular) of 37 years and former landscaped gardener embarked on the Madleen. Reva Seifert-Viard wanted, he explained to Landes news A few days ago, « Get out of lethargy, this anxiety of observing these massacres from afar » and denounce « This inhumanity of the order of infamous and horror ».

A crossing between Europe and Gaza, Pascal Maurieras had already known. This 62-year-old computer engineer had embarked in 2018 on one of the two boats in the Freedom Flotilla Coalition to reach Gaza, according to France 3 Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. At the time, already, the ship had been diverted by Israeli forces. The former union representative within the CGT did this at the end of spring. On the boat, this amateur sailor assured the quarters with other navigators.