Three associations filed a complaint against X in France on Thursday for torture and complicity based on a video, allegedly by a French-Israeli soldier, showing Palestinian prisoners in a humiliating situation.
This simple complaint was sent in Paris to the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT), responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to the complaint and proof of filing.
The signatories are the Belgian association “March 30th Movement”, the French “Justice and Rights Without Borders” (JDSF) and the “Association of Palestinians of France, AL JALIYA, Union of Palestinian Associations in France”.
The complaint charges “torture” and “complicity in torture as a war crime” in the “context of an international armed conflict.”
It specifically targets a video circulating on social media “supposedly filmed by a French-Israeli soldier, filming Palestinian prisoners in humiliating conditions and reporting torture”, dating from January and taking place in Gaza, the scene of the war between Israel and Hamas. according to the elements of the complaint.
Published separately on March 19 on it I’ll show you my back, you’ll laugh, they tortured him to speak.
“You were happy on October 7, you sons of bitches,” the voice said again, referring to a bloody attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement in southern Israel that left 1,170 people dead, mostly civilians, according to an AFP report based on official Israeli figures. .
In retaliation, Israel launched an ongoing military operation in Gaza that has killed more than 34,000 people, including more than 18,000 children and more than 12,000 women.
“This isolated element takes place in a much larger body of torture practices by Israeli soldiers,” Me Gilles Devers, one of the association’s lawyers, commented to AFP.
Upon receipt, the Pnat will analyze the admissibility of the complaint and the jurisdiction of the French courts before launching an investigation or not. (What about AFP)
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