“the priority is to recover our hostages” even if we have to “go through Egypt and Qatar”, says Jordan Bardella

“The first priority is the hostages”says Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally and guest on 8:30 am franceinfo, Wednesday October 25. “If it has to go through Egypt or Qatar, it has to go through Egypt or Qatar”, insists the MEP. 18 days after the start of the conflict in Israel and Hamas, nine Franco-Israelis are still missing.

The RN MEP says he is in favor of reviewing Qatar’s tax advantages in France, proposed by Horizons MP François Jolivet. This country “finances Islamist fundamentalism on the soil of the French Republic”, according to Jordan Bardella, for whom “we rolled out the red carpet for Qatari investments in France with this agreement” but “there is an agenda” And “the priority is to recover our hostages”he indicates.

The RN in favor of a humanitarian truce

In the European Parliament, Jordan Bardella claims to have voted in favor of a humanitarian truce, a position contrary to those of Israel and the United States, which oppose any truce until the Hamas hostages are released. “Israel’s response must be in compliance with international law”he explains.

“We must not be fooled, Hamas is today using civilians as human shields”

Jordan Bardella

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According to him, part of the “Hamas funding comes from the European Union”. This is why the MEP does not “I do not want a euro to go to the Gaza Strip until we are certain that this money is not diverted by Hamas.”