An investigation was opened after a report from the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau targeting comments by the author Zineb El Rhazoui “likely to be qualified as an apology for terrorism”, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Monday, requested by the ‘AFP.
The prosecution confirmed that the National Center for the Fight against Online Hate (PNLH) had received a report from the Ministry of the Interior, dated October 11, relating to a video published on the YouTube account “Nouvelle Aube Yeni Safak français” , entitled “Zineb El Rhazoui: full exclusive interview”, “considering that the remarks made were likely to be qualified as an apology for terrorism”.
The investigation was entrusted to the first district of the judicial police, according to the same source.
Interviewed by Nouvelle Aube, French version of the conservative Turkish daily Yeni Safak, Zineb El Rhazoui, former journalist of Charlie Hebdo who left the newspaper in 2016, had compared Israel to a “terrorist state”, “a successful Daesh”, refusing to condemn the bloody Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, in Israel.
“There are no civilians in Israel since everyone does military service, since everyone is a settler,” she said in this interview, before assuring that Hamas was a “movement of resistance” in “a concentration camp called Gaza”.
On October 7, 2023, hundreds of Hamas fighters infiltrated southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, carrying out a bloody attack against civilians on a scale and violence not seen since the creation of Israel in 1948. In retaliation, Israel declared a war to “annihilate” Hamas, triggering intense bombing of the Gaza Strip.
Source: www.20minutes.fr
