LFI elected official Rima Hassan denounces “judicial and political harassment” | EUROtoday

After her two police interviews, Rima Hassan counterattacks. “I am the subject of real judicial and political harassment due and exclusively because of my political opinions,” denounced the 33-year-old LFI elected official, Friday April 3, throughout a press convention held within the workplace of her lawyer Vincent Brengarth.

“The temporality of this dynamic of harassment began as soon as I entered politics” and “has not stopped since,” she lamented earlier than including: “A lot of fake news was relayed by dozens of journalists in the space of 24 hours, before I could even express myself (…) before I could answer your questions.”

“The two hearings this (Friday) morning” earlier than the brigade for the repression of private delinquency (BRDP) are linked to a grievance “filed by the European Jewish organization OJE and the French Jewish organization OJF” and a “complaint filed by the far-right collective Némésis”, the MEP stated on X at noon.

“To date, Rima Hassan has been the subject of 16 procedures closed by the national center for the fight against online hatred: 13 procedures have been closed without further action,” stated the Paris prosecutor’s workplace in a press launch.

The latter establishes for its half that “three procedures were joined to the previous ones as simple elements of context, not being in themselves capable of characterizing an offense”. But in keeping with the general public prosecutor, Rima Hassan “is also implicated in six other proceedings still in progress, either at the prosecution or entrusted to the BRDP”.

Thursday night, the MEP emerged free from her police custody within the premises of the PJ, with a summons on July 7 to be tried for “apology of terrorism” resulting from a publish revealed on March 26, 2026 on her X account.

At the top of Friday’s hearings, two summons had been additionally issued to him for a listening to earlier than the prison courtroom on September 16, 2026, for the counts of “public apology for a crime or misdemeanor” and “public and direct provocation without effect to commit a crime or misdemeanor”, specified the prosecution in its press launch.

Traces of artificial medicine

During the search of her results on Thursday, it was found “the presence of materials resembling on the one hand CBD and on the other hand 3MMC (a synthetic drug, Editor’s note), about which she was questioned”, indicated the prosecution on the finish of her custody, including that “these elements (were) disjointed and will be the subject of a separate procedure”.

“I had CBD on me yesterday when I went to my police custody, used for medical purposes,” Rima Hassan stated in a tweet on Friday. “Of the 2 CBDs that I had, one was tested consistent with what is legally sold, and the second according to investigators contained traces of synthetic drugs which would have been added to the CBD resin,” she specifies, including that she made it recognized the place she had bought “this CBD legally”.

“Verifications are simply underway on the origin of this CBD to corroborate my statements,” she added. She explains having carried out a urine check which confirmed “the only presence of a small trace of THC due to the consumption of CBD, which was confirmed by the doctor”. “All information that refers to drug possession is false.”

Me Brengarth “solemnly” requested the Paris prosecutor “to open a preliminary investigation, taking into account the numerous leaks” which occurred throughout police custody and thought of that it was “perfectly illegal” and that there had been “a blatant misuse of the procedure by the prosecution” to permit police custody with out having to request the lifting of his parliamentary immunity.

“No relentlessness”, for Laurent Nuñez

Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez justified Friday on BFMTV the reporting to the courts by his providers of Rima Hassan’s publish on X which referred to Kōzō Okamoto.

“It was normal to make a report (…) Ms. Hassan’s tweet is serious (…), there is no relentlessness,” argued the minister.

The placement in police custody of Rima Hassan sparked an outcry within the ranks of LFI. Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounced “political police”, whereas Manon Aubry, one other MEP from the motion, criticized “judicial harassment”.

Rima Hassan has repeatedly made controversial remarks about Israel. During the 2024 European marketing campaign, she grew to become the brand new idol of rebellious activists. Thus personalizing the foremost place taken by the pro-Palestinian struggle within the software program of La France insoumise after the Hamas assaults on October 7, 2023 and the response, described as “genocide” by LFI, from the federal government of Benjamin Netanyahu.

With AFP