Jean-Paul Delescaut was prosecuted for a leaflet distributed by the union on October 10, three days after the Hamas attack on Israel. The court considered that the comments in question demonized the perpetrators of the attacks, incited to “reduce moral reprobation” against them, and created an inversion between victims and perpetrators of terrorist acts.
"It is a very bad signal which is given in terms of freedom of expression in this conflict which is straining, to put it euphemistically, the political-media world," estimated the LFI deputy Ugo Bernalicis, who is returned to court. The leaflet contained "no explicit or implicit condemnation of the actions of October 7." The prosecutor estimated that the leaflet "constituted legitimization of a mass attack under the cover of a historical analysis and that these remarks could have "concrete consequences" in France, where the majority of anti-Semitic acts committed "relate to a displacement of this conflict on the (national) territory.