French court extends ban on Israeli participants in arms show
A French court has banned all “Israeli arms companies, their affiliates and all Israeli delegations” from participating in the Eurosatory weapons trade show, says Palestinian rights group al-Haq, which jointly brought a court case against the organisers of the Paris event.
Judges also also ordered that the court’s decision to be posted at all entrances to the show, al-Haq added.
The updated ruling extends an earlier ruling which banned Israeli firms exhibiting at the event, which begins in Paris tomorrow and will run until June 21.
“Conditions are no longer met to host Israeli companies at the show at a time when [French President Macron] is calling for Israel to cease operations in Rafah,” the French Defence Ministry said at the time.
‘Killer robots’ from US Darley Defense, left, and Israel’s General Robotics, right, at the Eurosatory trade show in 2022
Who is going to be more disappointed. Israel not being able to showcase their new 'Gaza tested' genocide toys, or dubious regimes not being able to buy Israeli genocide toys.
Arms trade shows should be banned anyway.
Some Israeli companies were planning to evade ban on French event: Rights groups
A group of 30 organisations that successfully brought a case arguing Israeli companies should not participate in the Eurosatory weapons trade show say an updated ruling extending the ban comes after some Israeli companies appeared to be still planning to participate in the event.
“Several declarations by Israeli companies indicated that they would circumvent this ban, by being present at other companies’ stands, and through subsidiaries or other affiliated companies,” the association of 30 organisations, collectively known as Stop Arming Israel France, said in a statement on Saturday after the court extended its initial ban.
“At least seven subsidiary companies” that “were majority-owned by Israeli companies, were still registered for the show”, the statement added.
The groups said that the participation of some Israeli companies meant that there remained a “high risk that the exhibition would contribute to international crimes, and violations of international humanitarian law”.
📢 Al-Haq & Partners Win Case Against COGES - the organizers of the world’s largest arms fair. Israeli arms companies, their affiliates and all Israeli delegations or intermediaries are barred from EUROSATORY arms fair https://t.co/fS3175MVfk
— Al-Haq الحق (@alhaq_org) June 15, 2024
Some more gaslighting from Italy
Italian PM says Israel falling into Hamas trap over Gaza
Asked why the G7 had failed to condemn Israel over its war on Gaza, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni encouraged reporters to “remember who started all this” and said she feared Israel had fallen into a “trap” set by Hamas.
“It looks like Israel is jumping into a trap. For the trap of Hamas was to isolate it. It seems it is working,” Meloni said.
Earlier we reported that Meloni wrapped up the three-day global event held in Puglia by saying that Italy is a “friend of Israel”.
“What we have to do is to work for peace and it is exactly what we’re doing and work for peace we have to dialogue and we have to recognise the right of Israel to be safe,” she said.
Another one for the ICC to deal with, enabling genocide. The G7 are not working for peace, the opposite. Italy was on the wrong side of history in WW2, and fits right in with Germany yet again.
