A prominent French parliamentarian’s daughter faces charges over disturbing social media posts in the aftermath of a brutal event.
By Ben Cohen, Algemeiner
The Paris public prosecutor confirmed on Friday that “investigations are continuing” in the case of the daughter of two far left parliamentarians arrested this week over a series of antisemitic posts on social media as her parents spoke out for the first time about the scandal.
22-year-old Inès Corbière was arrested on Tuesday for posts made in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in southern Israel, in which more than 1,200 people were murdered and over 200 kidnapped amid atrocities that included rape, bodily mutilation and decapitation.
Corbière is the daughter of Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière, two MPs who sit in the French National Assembly on behalf of “La France Insoumise” (LFI — “France Rising”), a far left grouping that has frequently attacked Israel’s military response to the Hamas atrocities. She is understood to have operated a now suspended account on the X/Twitter platform using the handle “Babynesou.”
One comment on the feed spoke disparagingly of the Israeli hostages being held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
“Maybe I don’t have a soul, but they don’t bother me at all, I even find them rather annoying, especially the kids,” the post read.
On the eve of a pro-Hamas march in Paris, another post asked provocatively: “Who’s excited to go and destroy the Zionists there?”
Another post dated Nov. 14 showed a young woman understood to be Corbière arguing with a person who was filming her at a demonstration on a cellphone. “I’m antisemitic, I don’t give a damn!” the woman is heard yelling before telling her interlocutor to “stop filming.”
A joint statement issued by Corbière’s parents on Friday accepted that she would have to appear in court to answer the charges but denied that she was antisemitic.
“First of all, we want to express with emotion our understanding and affection to all those who are shocked to read or listen to the words or expressions that are broadcast in this case,” said Corbière and Garrido said, before adding : “It emerges from our conversations with Ines that she hates and disapproves of racism and antisemitism.”
Noting that their home had been searched as part of the police investigation into their daughter, they emphasized that “she does not enjoy, in this regard, any privilege” on the matter of a court appearance.
At the same time, they spoke of a “strict distinction” between themselves as accountable public figures and their children, who were entitled to “total protection of their privacy and their physical and moral integrity.”
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