The Pnat specified that it had entrusted the Central Office for the Fight against Crimes Against Humanity with this preliminary investigation opened for “torture, within the meaning of the New York Convention of December 10, 1984” and “war crimes”.
An investigation was opened on Friday June 5 in Paris to «tortures» et “war crimes”following a report from the government on the manner in which French people from the Gaza flotilla were treated by the Israeli authorities, we learned from the French national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office (Pnat).
Asked by AFP, the Pnat specified that it had entrusted this preliminary investigation opened to the Central Office for the Fight against Crimes Against Humanity to “torture, within the meaning of the New York convention of December 10, 1984” et “war crimes”. The report to French justice was made by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot.
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A new “flotilla for Gaza”
At the end of May, the far-right Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, caused an uproar within his government and abroad by publishing a video of activists of a new “flotilla for Gaza” kneeling with their hands tied, after their arrest at sea.
Israeli forces had boarded the fifty boats of this flotilla off the coast of Cyprus and its approximately 430 crew members had been forcibly brought to Israel and then detained in the Ktziot prison (south), according to the Israeli human rights organization Adalah, which ensures their legal representation and defense. These activists, including 37 French nationals, have since «tous été expulsés»according to the Israeli authorities.
