French-Swedish leftist politician Emma Forreau announced she was summoned for questioning by police on Wednesday over 'advocating for terrorism.'
According to Forreau, who is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with La France Insoumise (LFI), there is a police investigation into her July 17 tweet in support of Georges I. Abdallah.
"After 41 years in prison, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah will be released on July 25," she tweeted at the time. "He was the oldest political prisoner, and France should be ashamed of having imprisoned him for so long. Long live his struggle, long live Palestine!"
Lebanese terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah served almost 40 years of a life sentence in a French prison over attacks on US and Israeli diplomats in France.
Abdallah is the former head of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions. He was jailed in 1987 for his role in the 1982 murders in Paris of US military attache Charles Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov and for the attempted murder of US Consul General Robert Homme in Strasbourg in 1984.
In response to the police summons, Forreau wrote that there is a "criminalization of voices for Palestine" but that she will not be silenced.
Prominent anti-Israel activist
Forreau is a prominent anti-Israel activist. In July, she set sail off the coast of Sicily aboard the Handala boat, which was aiming to reach the Gaza Strip with humanitarian aid supplies. The Handala was ultimately detained by the Israel Navy, and the 21 activists on board were deported or brought to a hearing before the Detention Review Tribunal.
Forreau claimed that she was "kidnapped" and that the seizing of the boat and its passengers was a "flagrant human rights violation."
Immediately after her announcement, multiple prominent French leftist politicians came out in support.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the founder of LFI, said, "More of the government’s grotesque appeasement of Netanyahu. Emma Fourreau, MEP from the Handala flotilla, is being prosecuted for advocating terrorism. Rima Hassan spent 11 hours at the police station. In France, police now interrogate MPs for hours over their opinions. Macron's regime is reinventing political policing."
LFI member Aurélien Le Coq called the questioning of Forreau "intolerable" and accused the French justice system of being "accomplices of genocide."
"The government was on vacation when she was kidnapped by a criminal army," added Le Coq. "Now they summon her to the police for supporting a decision made by the French justice system."
French LFI MP Hadrien Clouet expressed support for Forreau for "defending the release of a political prisoner against CIA maneuvers in France."
"Equating the defense of the rule of law with advocating terrorism says a lot about these amateur prosecutors," he added.
LFI politicians Antoine Léaument, Thomas Portes, Manon Aubry, Rima Hassan, Aly Diouara, and Nadège Abomangoli made similar statements.
The Jerusalem Post reached out to the French interior ministry for confirmation.