The primary reason for the criminal prosecution of the MEP, who is a member of the left-wing party France Unbowed (LFI), is her post on the social network X (formerly Twitter) on March 26. In the now-deleted post, Hassan quoted Kลzล Okamoto, a member of the far-left militant group "Japanese Red Army." Okamoto was one of three attackers who carried out a massacre at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv on May 30, 1972, opening fire on a crowd, killing 26 and injuring 80 people. "She explicitly quotes the perpetrator of a terrorist attack and adopts his words without distancing herself from him or condemning him," said her colleague, French MP Matthias Renault. The organization Observatoire juif de France, which monitors antisemitism, confirmed that it filed a criminal complaint against Hassan on the same day the post was made and published. According to the newspaper Le Parisien, Hassan responded to a summons for questioning on Thursday at the judicial police headquarters in Paris's second arrondissement, as part of an investigation by the National Unit for Combating Online Hate. However, during a search before the questioning, police found several grams of synthetic drugs in her luggage. The origin and exact composition of the substances found have not yet been clarified, leading to an investigation against her for suspected use, trafficking, and possession of narcotics. This is not the first time Rima Hassan has faced legal action over her online statements. At the end of 2023, an investigation was launched against her for statements that French authorities deemed as expressing support for the Palestinian movement Hamas, following the attack on Israel on October 7. In December 2024, the Council of Jewish Institutions in France filed a complaint about her posts, in which she allegedly called on French citizens of Palestinian origin to engage in armed resistance against the Israeli army. The arrest of the MEP has sparked sharp condemnation within her party. LFI leader Jean-Luc Mรฉlenchon criticized the police's move, calling it politicized. "In France, there is no longer any parliamentary immunity protection," Mรฉlenchon stated on X.