{"id":372524,"date":"2026-04-03T06:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/372524\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T06:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:31:09","slug":"mep-rima-hassan-placed-in-french-police-custody-over-suspicion-of-apology-for-terrorism-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/372524\/","title":{"rendered":"MEP Rima Hassan placed in French police custody over suspicion of apology for terrorism \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a text message to POLITICO, Hassan\u2019s team argued that the temporary custody was a breach of the lawmaker\u2019s immunity as an MEP.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the European Parliament declined to comment \u201con ongoing proceedings\u201d but confirmed that \u201cthe Parliament is in contact with the national authorities, the member and her political group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>French far-right lawmaker Matthias Renault, who alerted French prosecutors to Hassan\u2019s post last week, was quick to celebrate. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally, the beginning of the end of impunity for the France Unbowed lawmaker!\u201d Renault <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MatthiasRN\/status\/2039658172797817134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote<\/a> in a social media post on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan, who was born stateless in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, is one of France\u2019s most visible pro-Palestinian activists and has repeatedly courted controversy when it comes to her stance on Israel. <\/p>\n<p>Her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/rima-hassan-greta-thunberg-freedom-flotilla-palestine-gaza-israel-war\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">continued description<\/a> of Hamas\u2019 armed resistance against Israel as \u201clegitimate from the perspective of international law\u201d has drawn fury from much of France\u2019s political establishment, though she says the terror group\u2019s Oct. 7, 2023 attack was \u201cmorally unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This story has been updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a text message to POLITICO, Hassan\u2019s team argued that the temporary custody was a breach of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[53906,2226,85,46,4178,8250,43,8252,2460,98],"class_list":{"0":"post-372524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-airports","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-media","13":"tag-meps","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-parliament","16":"tag-social-media","17":"tag-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}