“Nothing would be worse than forgetting,” says MP Mathieu Lefèvre, Renaissance president of the France-Israel friendship group in the National Assembly.
Images of the terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hamas on October 7 in Israel will be broadcast on Tuesday, November 14 in the National Assembly, franceinfo learned from Renaissance MP Mathieu Lefèvre, confirming information from the Figaro. “It will be a difficult and painful moment, I fear it personally but I think it is essential,” declares the elected official, president of the France-Israel friendship group in the National Assembly.
The broadcast will take place on Tuesday at 5:15 p.m. in the projection room of the Palais Bourbon. “The invitation will be sent to all members of the France-Israel friendship group,” composed in particular of the deputies Aymeric Caron (LFI-Nupes), Sébastien Chenu (RN), Jérôme Guedj (PS), Meyer Habib (LR), Julien Odoul (RN), Sylvain Maillard (Renaissance), Eric Pauget (LR) and Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet (Renaissance), Benjamin Haddad (Renaissance) and Valérie Rabault (PS).
“I think it is essential to be able to continue to bear witness to barbarism, to continue to be able to say the unspeakable so that these absolutely atrocious terrorist events are not swept away by the news and that is also the role of parliamentarians and particularly parliamentarians from the France-Israel friendship group”justifies Mathieu Lefèvre.
“Raw images” already broadcast at the Israeli embassy in Paris
A month after the Hamas attacks, the Israeli embassy in Paris organized on Tuesday the first screening in France of these 43 minutes of“raw images” no comment. Around fifty journalists watched this film. Some images come from videos found on the terrorists’ phones or on-board cameras. Others come from video surveillance, victims’ phones and first responders.
MP Mathieu Lefèvre anticipates the criticism: “It’s not a political initiative, it’s even less a game”. The president of the France-Israel group adds that he “This initiative is in no way intended to justify any form of response whatsoever, to justify Israel’s policy and the response it is currently pursuing, the two things are uncorrelated.” Then the chosen one insists: “Nothing would be worse than forgetting, nothing would be worse than leaving no trace of what happened on October 7.”