The Quai d’Orsay opens an investigation after the broadcast of a video showing a former collaborator tearing down the portrait of Israeli hostages

A former contractual employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was identified tearing down the portrait of Israeli hostages in Gaza in a video broadcast on Tuesday, November 7, the Quai d’Orsay said. An administrative investigation “will be diligent” on the conditions of recruitment of this woman, clarified Catherine Colonna’s teams.

“The video released today shows a totally unworthy attitude, behavior and comments,” writes the ministry in its press release, which “disqualify (…) this person from maintaining any working relationship” with the Quai d’Orsay. This woman no longer had “contractual relations” with the ministry since last summer.

Other publications denounced

The ministry announces that the acts filmed “probably fall within the definition of anti-Semitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.”. “It will be up to the courts to determine whether they also warrant criminal prosecution”he adds.

The ministry also says it has “knowledge of other publications comparing Hamas terrorist attacks to the French resistance against the Nazi occupation”.