“It’s the first time the police has sought this type of charge for a tweet,” Rima Hassan explained, a month after she was arrested and held in custody for charges relating to “terrorism apologia.”

A post on X on March 26 earned Hassan, a leading voice in the Palestine movement and a prominent figure in the left-populist France Insoumise party, an investigation by the Paris district court ultimately leading to her widely covered arrest on April 2.

The police had received complaints after she shared a quote by Kōzō Okamoto, a member of the Japanese Red Army who took part in the 1972 attacks on Tel Aviv airport, killing twenty-six people.