This legal procedure could have been like all the others that have been processed. Instead, it is becoming highly political. After thirteen complaints filed against her for glorifying terrorism, all dismissed, French MEP Rima Hassan will have to appear before the criminal court for this same charge. “This is part of a sequence that will continue until the presidential elections [sic]”, defended the elected official, alongside her lawyer Mr. Vincent Brengarth and deputy Paul Vannier (La France insoumise), during a press conference organized in Paris on Friday, April 3, 2026.
The issue is her referral to the criminal court for glorifying terrorism on July 7. The tweet in question was posted on the social network X, deleted since, referring to Kōzō Okamoto. He is the sole survivor of a trio of Japanese perpetrators of a massacre in 1972 at the Lod-Tel Aviv airport (Israel). The toll was 26 dead, including 17 Puerto Ricans, 8 Israelis, and 1 Canadian….
