The French government speaks a few hours after the routing of Madleen, a humanitarian ship that aimed to bring help to Gaza, diverted by the Israeli army on Sunday night, on Monday, June 9.
“As soon as the ship is organized, we ask to be able to exercise our consular protection towards them. Our consulate requested to be able to visit them as soon as they have joined the port of Ashdod, to guarantee their situation and facilitate their rapid return to France,” said Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barot, in a press release.
The Government indicates that it had “warned” and tried to dissuade the occupants of the mission, including the MEP Rima Hassan and activist Greta Thunberg. “We were linked to Israeli authorities to avoid any incident,” Paris added.
According to a communication from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, the twelve members of the humanitarian mission will be returned to their countries of origin, in an unknown calendar at this time.
In RMC-BFMTV, the MEP LFI Manon Aubry called the French president Emmanuel Macron, president of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola and that of the European Commission Ursula von der read “Action” to “ask for the fastest release of Freedy Flottille’s freedom, which will also be responsible for its complicity.”
He also punished “the accomplice and the loose silence of those who do nothing that in front of this genocide, confronted with this illegal arrest.”
Source: BFM TV
