{"id":577907,"date":"2026-04-02T18:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577907\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:43:09","slug":"european-parliament-member-rima-hassan-taken-into-french-police-custody-police-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577907\/","title":{"rendered":"European Parliament member Rima Hassan taken into French police custody | Police News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Members of Hassan\u2019s La France Insoumise party condemn detention as part of effort to \u2018intimidate\u2019 Palestine supporters.<\/p>\n

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European Parliament member Rima Hassan<\/a> has been detained in France on suspicion of \u201capology for terrorism\u201d, French media outlets are reporting, in a move members of her left-wing La France Insoumise (LFI) party say aims to silence Palestine supporters.<\/p>\n

Le Parisien newspaper reported on Thursday that Hassan was detained in relation to an investigation into a social media post that referenced Kozo Okamoto, who took part in a deadly attack at Israel\u2019s Ben Gurion International Airport in 1972.<\/p>\n

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Hassan had deleted the post on X, Le Parisien said.<\/p>\n

Jean-Luc Melenchon, the founder of LFI, said in a social media post on Thursday that Hassan\u2019s detention related to a retweet from last month.\u00a0\u201cSo there is no longer parliamentary immunity in France. Intolerable,\u201d he wrote on X.<\/p>\n

Le Parisien and the AFP news agency also reported that a small amount of \u201csynthetic drugs\u201d was found on Hassan when she was taken into police custody.<\/p>\n

Hassan and her lawyer did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Reuters news agency on her detention.<\/p>\n

Hassan, a French-Palestinian lawyer and activist, was elected to the European Parliament in 2024.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old has been a prominent critic of Israel\u2019s genocidal war<\/a> against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and she took part in a Gaza-bound flotilla<\/a> that was intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters in October 2025.<\/p>\n

Her Palestine advocacy has drawn the ire of pro-Israel groups and figures in France and other countries.<\/p>\n

Last week, Hassan said she was denied entry to Canada, where she was expected to take part in meetings and speaking engagements, in what she described as an act of censorship.<\/p>\n

In late March, Matthias Renault, a French politician with the far-right Rassemblement national (National Rally) party, said he alerted the chief prosecutor in Paris about Hassan\u2019s X post that referenced Okamoto.<\/p>\n

Renault welcomed Hassan\u2019s detention on Thursday, writing<\/a> on social media: \u201cFinally the beginning of the end of impunity for the LFI MP!\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"ATHENS,Hassan took part in a Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla last year [File: Milos Bicanski\/Getty]<\/p>\n

But lawmakers and officials from Hassan\u2019s party condemned her detention.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe French police and justice system are being used to intimidate those who support the Palestinian people,\u201d said Sophia Chikirou, an LFI MP in the French National Assembly, the lower house of parliament.<\/p>\n

Mathilde Panot, an MP who heads the LFI delegation in the National Assembly, said that in President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s France, \u201cthe criminalisation of political opponents has reached a new level\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis relentless attack, trampling on the most fundamental rights, must end immediately,\u201d Panot wrote on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of Hassan\u2019s La France Insoumise party condemn detention as part of effort to \u2018intimidate\u2019 Palestine supporters. Published…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,3456,637,37472,21751,44,6975,714,1942],"class_list":{"0":"post-577907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-human-rights","13":"tag-israel-palestine-conflict","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-police","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-social-media"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}