The subject continues to divide. The French political class continues to fracture in the pavement or not of the municipalities with Palestinian flags, the socialist leader Olivier Foure calling Emmanuel Macron to “authorize” the initiative, on this day of official recognition of the Palestinian State for France.
The Interior Minister renouncing Bruno Retilleau has ordered the prefects to take over administrative justice if the municipalities float the Palestinian colors, not to be able to ask the police to remove the flag.
“Symbolic gesture”
Everywhere in France, the mayors, mainly to the left, have decided to align with the call of Olivier Faure and make the Palestinian flag pavisy in the pediment of their town hall. This is the case in Nantes, where socialist mayor Johanna Rolland kept his focus.
“That the communes who want to associate, for a symbolic gesture, with the recognition of the state of Palestine by the French Republic, I think it makes sense,” said the councilor, reports Ouest-France.
In Malakoff, Mayor PCF Jacqueline Belhomme decided not to withdraw the flag “before Tuesday”, despite a court order of the Administrative Court of Cergy-Pontoise, about the appeal of the prefect of Hauts-de-Seine. The latter again took the jurisdiction and this time demanded a “financial fine.”
The red, black, green and green banner must be exhibited in the pediment of other municipalities in the Parisian suburbs, such as Nanterre, Bagneux, Gennevilliers, Ivry-Sur-Seine or Corbeil-Esonnes, where the mayor decided to distribute a thousand flags to the inhabitants. In the Couneuve, the threat of judicial reprisals “does not change” the will of Mayor PCF Gilles Poux to show the Palestinian colors in his Marie.
“Strong act”
“It is not a long-term militant act”, but a “election” made at a time when President Emmanuel Macron must formalize the recognition by France of the State of Palestine during a United Nations General Assembly, argues the socialist mayor of Saint-Denis, in Seine-Denis, Mathieu Hanotin.
In Lille, in the north, two Palestinian flags floated along with two French flags and a European flag, AFP said Friday. Several municipalities of the OISE – Montaire, Creil and Villiers -saint -paul – have also announced that they will make Palestinian colors in the pediment of their town hall, reports Le Courrier Picard on Monday.
“I refused to give in, despite the threats of reprisals. I will not blame for once for solidarity with the President of the Republic,” he joked in the Jean-Pierre Bosino newspaper, communist mayor of Montantantaire.
In the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, the communist mayor of Mauléon-Clicharre, 3,000 inhabitants, who had published a Palestinian flag on Friday, however, he withdrew it on Saturday after the derivation to the administrative justice by the Prefect. In Brest, the City Council that uses the Ukrainian flag since 2022 has chosen to illuminate the building in the colors of Palestine on Monday.
Benoît Payan, at the head of a left majority in Marseille, promised to pose on Monday “a strong act”, without specifying the content. But without flag pavement.
Source: BFM TV
