LR MEP Bellamy calls LFI colleague's flag gesture a scandalous act

Roberta Metsola announced that authorities will take all appropriate steps after a confrontation involving French MEP Rima Hassan and an Israeli artist during a display about recent Hamas attacks on Israel. Bellamy, an LR MEP, accused Hassan of overturning the Israeli and EU flags that had been displayed to honor victims of those attacks and called the alleged act a form of complicity with antisemitic hatred. He urged disciplinary measures, while colleague Céline Imart described the incident as flag vandalism and a disgraceful spectacle. Hassan is under trial in France for an alleged social‑media post praising terrorism related to a 1972 Tel Aviv attack, and Manon Aubry defended her, saying reports exaggerate the situation.