She was again questioned by the police on Friday morning as part of an investigation into a social media post she wrote last week expressing solidarity with Japanese terrorist Kōzō Okamoto, who was convicted of a terrorist attack that killed 26 people at Ben Gurion International Airport in 1972.
In her post on Friday, Hassan, an MEP with the hard-left France Unbowed party, said she had two types of CBD, a chemical from the cannabis plant that doesn’t have the intoxicating effects of THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. The first type complied with legal norms, but the second contained “traces of synthetic drugs,” according to investigators.
“I told them where I had legally bought this CBD. Simple checks are ongoing into the origin of the CBD,” Hassan added.
Hassan also criticized the probe into her now-deleted post on X, accusing the “pro-Israeli lobby in France” of targeting her “political opinions on the genocide in Gaza and Palestine.” She stated that 13 out of 16 cases against her had been dropped. Hassan’s team argued that the temporary custody was a breach of the lawmaker’s immunity as an MEP.
However, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Friday that while Hassan has been cleared in 13 cases, she still faces nine separate investigations. The prosecutors explained that police addressing flagrant offenses can place MEPs into police custody without removing their parliamentary immunity.
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