MEP Rima Hassan placed in French police custody over suspicion of apology for terrorism – POLITICO

PARIS — French MEP Rima Hassan from the hard-left France Unbowed party was put under police custody in Paris on Thursday, her office told POLITICO.

Hassan is being questioned and temporarily held as part of an investigation into “apology for terrorism” for a social media post she wrote last week expressing solidarity with Japanese terrorist Kōzō Okamoto, according to reports first published by Le Parisien.

Okamoto was convicted of a terrorist attack that killed 26 people at Ben Gurion International Airport in 1972.