The main four Surrounded Israeli companies in the Paris Hall of Aeronautics were closed after, as reported, the exhibitors refused to abandon some weapons from the exhibition.
The exhibitors of the aerospace industry event were hidden after the pressure carried out by the French government on the organizers, according to the source KeeperField
The stands were from Elbit Systems, Rafael, IAI and Uvision. Three smaller Israeli exhibits in which no team was exhibited, and stand The Israeli Ministry of Defense remains open. The event is held in the middle of the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East.
Reuters reports that the French authorities gave the order after Israeli companies violated the order of the French security agency to remove offensive or kinetic weapons from SurroundedField
The exhibition, which was held for the first time in 1909 and was organized by the French Association of Aerospace Industry, is noted in the Le Burreta, north -east of Paris, from Monday to Sunday.
France, the ally of Israel for a long time, gradually strengthened its position on the government of Benjamin Netanyahu for his actions in Gaza and his military attacks abroad. The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, confirmed last Friday the support of his country to Israel to protect himself, but referring to his attacks on Iran, asked: “All sides for maximum deterrent and uncertain.”
The Israeli Ministry of Defense said that he rejected the order to remove some weapons systems from the exhibitors, and that the organizers of the exhibition answered, erecting a black panel that separated the pavilions from the Israeli industry of others.
“This is a scandalous and unprecedented decision, stinking for political and commercial reasons. The French are protected in alleged political motives to exclude Israeli offensive weapons from the international exhibition, weapons that competes with the French industries, ”the ministry says.
The President and Executive Director of IAI, Boaz Levy, said that the black panels remember the “Dark Days when the Jews were separated from the European Society,” Reuters reports.
On Monday, the images taken by the AFP agency showed a yellow lyrics drawn on one of the black walls that surrounded the stands. Accompanied by the drawing of the Israeli flag, one could read: “Behind these walls are the best protection systems used by many countries. These systems are protected today by Israel. The French government, in the name of discrimination, is trying to hide them. ”
Later, the section of the black wall seemed to be replaced by a white wall.
Two American republican politicians who visited the air exhibition also criticized this measure.
The governor -republican Sarah Khakabi Sanders called the decision “rather absurd”, and the senator -resositor Katie Britt is a “myopic” hint.
Meshar Sasson, senior vice -president of Elbit Systems, accuses France of trying to interfere with competition, pointing to a series of contracts that Elbit reached in Europe. “If you cannot defeat them by technology, tell them, right? This is what is happening because there is no other explanation, ”he says, according to Reuters.
Rafael called this measure “unprecedented, unjustified and politically motivated.”
The organizer of the air fair, as they say in conversations, to try to help “various parts to find a favorable exit to the situation.”