left-wing deputies demand the lifting of the parliamentary immunity of LR Meyer Habib, after comments on Gaza

They accuse the deputy of French people abroad of apologizing for war crimes, for a sentence pronounced during the hemicycle.

Thirty-nine deputies from the environmental groups, PS and LFI demand the lifting of the parliamentary immunity of their colleague Les Républicains, Meyer Habib, for comments made in the hemicycle on Gaza, in a letter sent, Thursday, December 21, to the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet. They denounce a sentence pronounced by the deputy for the 8th constituency of French people established outside France during the government questions session on Tuesday.

“While the minister [des Affaires étrangères, Catherine Colonna] was invited to react to the death of a Quai d’Orsay agent following Israeli bombings on a residential building housing civilians, MP Meyer Habib distinctly and twice pronounced the words: ‘And this is not finished !'”, relate the authors of the letter. Comments which could, according to them, “akin to the apology of war crimes”. They ask “a heavy disciplinary penalty”as well as the meeting of the commission responsible for article 26 of the application of the Constitution “so that it examines the lifting of Meyer Habib’s parliamentary immunity”.

According to the report of the session, the MP launched “And it’s not over” in response to a question from LFI deputy Eric Coquerel: “Who can now doubt the real war objectives of the Netanyahu government which, after the North, is bombing the south of the Gaza Strip, precisely where it had asked the Palestinians to take refuge?”

Meyer Habib said these words a second time when Eric Coquerel asked: “Who can doubt now that it is less a question of eradicating Hamas than of putting an end to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, as Palestinian territories?”.

The LR MP, whose constituency includes Israel, did not respond to AFP on Thursday.