French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau moves to dissolve Urgence Palestine ahead of May Day protests in Paris.

Ahead of the May Day protests in Paris, expected to draw around 15,000 participants, French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau announced on the CNews channel on Wednesday that he has initiated the dissolution of Urgence Palestine.

The Palestine Emergency Collective (Urgence Palestine) is a broad coalition comprising citizens, trade unions, political movements, and associations advocating for Palestinian self-determination.

Retailleau justified the move by claiming it was necessary to “hit the Islamists,” saying that Islamism is a political ideology that seeks to exploit Islam for power, representing a distortion of Islam’s true spiritual teachings.

The French state has a documented history of using group dissolution as a legal tool against Palestine advocacy.

  • mel ♀@jlai.luEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    I hate those fuckers in power as they always embrace far right instead of left as good centrists always do

    • Turbonics@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      8 hours ago

      Le Pen’ National Rally gets a pass but a pro Palestinian group is way too extreme and must be disbanded.

    • Anonymaus@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Wasn’t France also about to recognise Palestine, so dissolution of this coalition seems like a step backwards

      • unautrenom@jlai.luEnglish
        10·
        2 days ago

        Macron’s also trying to entice foreign researchers into France with grants and the benefits of our social security while simultanously breaking both apart. He’s a liberal politician, his face is on our dictionary’s entry for ‘hypocrit’.

        • yourNewFavouriteUser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          2 days ago

          basically, Retailleau is in the government thanks to a pseudo coalition between his party and other parties (mostly right wing). He is also challenging the leadership of his party from the current leader, Laurent Wauquiez, with the 2027 election ballot in the balance. So atm he’s trying his best to rile up the rightmost voters as much as he can with every speechs and official acts.

          that being said, the rest of the government is also a shitshow rn