Jacques Chirac’s La Roche-sur-Yon: Embracing the Palestinian Flag

To warn about the violence in Palestine, the association France Palestine Solidarité placed a Palestinian flag in the hand of the statue of Jacques-Chirac, in La Roche.

On Saturday July 8, at Place Napoléon in La Roche-sur-Yon, the Association France Palestine Solidarité organized a rally to warn “about the violence of the Israeli army and settlers against the Palestinian population”, indicates Jocelyne Dupas of the AFPS85. The demonstration ended, place Jacques-Chirac.

The statue of the president ended up with a Palestinian flag in its hand. A nod to Jacques Chirac’s anger on October 22, 1996, when he verbally attacked Israeli soldiers who prevented him from greeting Palestinians: “What do you want? Me to go back to my plane and go back to France? »

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