Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah was banned from entering German territory in mid-April. “They say the Germans banned my entry into Europe for a year,” explained the rector of the University of Glasgow.
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The rector of the University of Glasgow, Ghassan Abu Sittah, who was to tell the Senate about his experience as a doctor in Gaza since the Israeli offensive, is prevented from entering France on Saturday after being refused entry to German territory in April, he announced on Saturday May 4 in a message on. “I’m at Charles De Gaulle airport. They’re stopping me from entering France. I’m supposed to speak to the French Senate” Saturday, he wrote. “They say the Germans banned my entry into Europe for a year”he added.
“Fortress Europe silences genocide witnesses while Israel kills them in prison.”
Ghassan Abu Sittahon Twitter
In mid-April, Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah was banned from entering Germany, as was former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. Both were to participate in a “Palestinian Congress” in Berlin which the German police had put an end to an hour after it had started. Questioned about Yanis Varoufakis, German authorities justified this measure by their will “to prevent all anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli propaganda”.
“Repression of freedom of expression”
In a video broadcast the same day on X, Dr Abu Sittah then mentioned being banned from German territory “the whole month of April”. He also denounced “the repression of freedom of expression in Germany”a country according to him “partner in crime [de l’armée israélienne] by silencing witnesses to the genocide” in Gaza.
Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, who spent 43 days treating in Gaza, notably in the al-Chifa hospital, was to participate in a conference in the Senate, organized by environmentalist senator Raymonde Poncet Monge. “Outrageous, Ghassan Abu Sittah, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon who worked in Gaza, is prevented from participating in a conference in the Senate”reacted Guillaume Gontard, president of the environmental group in the Senate, on X. In the end, Ghassan Abu Sittah was heard by videoconference by the French senators, as indicated on Green MP Sabrina Sebaihi.