Renaissance du Nord MP Violette Spillebout called this Monday on by pro-Palestinian activist Rima Hassan. The conference, focusing on “current events in Palestine”, is scheduled to be held on Thursday at the University of Lille.
In recent days, several public speaking engagements by LFI candidates have been canceled. Jean-Luc Mélenchon was to speak at Rennes 2 University alongside Emma Fourreau, ninth on the LFI list for the European elections. But “the security of the event could not be guaranteed’, the university management assured AFP last Thursday, who said they had received “a threatening email” “The risk was confirmed by the prefecture,” added the same source. The administrative procedure for the invitation would have been carried out “very much out of time”,. i.e. less than ten days before the event, according to the Bordeaux university establishment. “Yes, it is urgent to put an end to the tragedy in Gaza, but it is not with those who represent the most violent anti-Semitism”