“No awareness of the seriousness”: 10 months suspended prison sentence and 2 years of ineligibility required against Rima Hassan for advocating terrorism

On Monday, the president of the court pushed the hearing of witnesses until late in the evening in order to leave plenty of room, this Tuesday, for pleadings on the merits of the case: was Rima Hassan, yes or no, guilty of glorifying terrorism on March 26? Yes, for the prosecution, which requested a suspended prison sentence of 10 months, accompanied by two years of ineligibility. The public prosecutor noted “no questioning of the facts” on the part of the LFI MEP, who nevertheless has a “responsibility” as an “elected official”. She faced up to 7 years of imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 euros for this offense.

This day in March, the LFI MEP relayed on X a publication from the “Israel Exposed” account dedicated to Kozo Okamoto. This Japanese man was one of the perpetrators of the attack at Tel Aviv airport in 1972, which left 26 people dead. Rima Hassan accompanied this sharing with the French translation of a quote from Okamoto: “I devoted…