Ban for waving Palestine flag suits 'authoritarian regime': French MP
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At the time, Delogu waved the Palestinian flag in protest against France's continued supply of equipment and sale of weapons to "Israel".
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French MP for La France Insoumise (LFI) Sebastien Delogu looks on during a pro-Palestinian rally in central Paris on May 29, 2024. (AFP)
French left-wing lawmaker Sebastien Delogu described Thursday the 15-day suspension imposed by the country's parliament over his brandishing of the Palestinian flag inside the premises as "worthy of an authoritarian regime."
Delogu, a member of parliament for the France Unbowed (LFI) party, stood up with the flag during questions to the government.
Parliament speaker Yael Braun-Pivet denounced what she called unacceptable behavior, and lawmakers voted to suspend Delogu for two weeks and cut his parliamentary allowance by half for two months.
"The voices of peace are subject to bans, summons and violence from a dying power," Delogu wrote on his account on X, adding, "The France of the accomplices of the genocide is not ours!"
Ma sanction pour avoir brandi le drapeau d'un peuple colonisé et massacré, est digne d'un régime autoritaire.
— Sébastien DELOGU (@sebastiendelogu) May 30, 2024
Les voix de la paix subissent interdictions, convocations et violences d'un pouvoir à l'agonie.
Je saisis la CEDH.
La France des complices du génocide n'est pas la nôtre! pic.twitter.com/sc3BngWoQj
At the time, the French MP waved the Palestinian flag in protest against France's continued supply of equipment and sale of weapons to the Israeli occupation military, which uses them in the genocidal war it is waging against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. Delogu then left the lower chamber making a V-sign for victory, as right-wing and centrist lawmakers inside applauded the sanctions against him.
Leftist French MP Sebastien Delogu from La France Insoumise Party was suspended for 15 days for raising #Palestine's flag in the National Assembly.
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) May 28, 2024
According to Reuters, Delogu "waved the Palestinian flag in the National Assembly ... because as I speak, #France sells weapons,… pic.twitter.com/NzkfJHEZUv
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