Little by little, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and its controversies are invading the different areas of the political and social sphere in France. A complaint against The plaintiffs are the French Jewish Union for Peace (UJFP), an anti-Zionist association that has existed since 1994, as well as a Franco-Palestinian, whose thirteen close relatives are currently in the Gaza Strip.
This complaint, filed by lawyers Damia Taharraoui and Marion Lafouge, is the first for this reason, the most serious on the scale of the law, before French justice. A few days after the issuance of arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court targeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as Hamas military leader Mohamed Deif for crimes against humanity and war crimes. Even if there is no cause and effect link between the two, we can only emphasize the transfer of the conflict to the terrain of international and national law.
The complainants chose to become civil parties, which systematically leads to the opening of a judicial investigation, to avoid dismissal by the prosecution. This is the fate of a complaint against X for torture, filed in April, against a Franco-Israeli soldier. The National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT), also competent in matters of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, considered that the evidence was insufficient.
Full and exclusive control of Israel
In the present case, the facts in question were “committed since January 2024 by a certain number of French citizens present in Israel, in this case participating in actions to block humanitarian aid that deliberately subjugates the group of Palestinians in Gaza, within the framework of the siege of this territory ordered by the authorities Israelis, to conditions of existence that could lead to their partial or total destruction.mentions the text of the complaint. Clearly, Franco-Israelis belonging to the Israel Is Forever and Tsav-9 collectives are accused of having contributed to the current famine in the Gaza Strip by blocking the few humanitarian aid trucks allowed to enter.
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