In the midst of the campaign for the European elections, the president of the rebellious group in the National Assembly is being prosecuted for “apology of terrorism”, while number 3 on the RN list for the June election is the target of a complaint for complicity in crime against humanity.
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Justice burst into the European election campaign on Tuesday April 23 with two procedures. One targets rebellious France, the other the National Rally. The first is the summons by the police of Mathilde Panot. The boss of the rebellious group in the National Assembly is being prosecuted for “apology of terrorism” because of the press release she published after the massacres committed by Hamas, a text in which she described the terrorist attack of October 7 as“armed offensive by Palestinian forces” responding to “the intensification of the Israeli occupation policy”. These comments earned him a complaint from the European Jewish organization. The other procedure is the complaint filed for complicity in crimes against humanity and complicity in torture by the Human Rights League and the Utopia 56 association against Fabrice Leggeri, number 3 on the RN conduct list. by Jordan Bardella. The former boss of Frontex is accused of having increased the number of illegal pushbacks at sea of migrant boats and of having delivered them to the Libyan coast guard despite the risks involved.
The indignation of the RN and the Insoumis
Complaints arriving in the middle of the European campaign, which aroused the Siamese anger of Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The first accused “far-left associations to want “silence” those who oppose the “migratory submergence”. The second judges that the summons of Mathilde Panot is “an unprecedented event in the history of our democracy” who aims, to want “to silence” the rebels for “protect the ongoing genocide in Gaza”. Well, it is normal that the RN and the Insoumis are indignant to see their campaigns hit by these procedures, even if they also allow them to unite their troops a little more by posing as victims of alleged attacks from power. Let us also remember that Mathilde Panot and Fabrice Leggeri remain presumed innocent and that they are not even indicted.
There is no evidence to suggest that these complaints are linked to the electoral context. Since October 7, certain rebels have accumulated declarations likely to prompt complaints. And NGOs have been asking the International Criminal Court to investigate the actions of Fabrice Leggeri for two years already. However, in recent years we have seen an increase in procedures of all kinds against elected officials of all labels. And the judicialization of political life is never a sign of the good health of democracy.
