French parliament suspended after MP waves Palestinian flag

The head of France’s national assembly suspended the lower house after Sébastien Delogu, a deputy of the hard-left La France Insoumise (LFI) party, waved a Palestinian flag to draw attention to the Israeli bombardment of Gaza while a junior trade minister was answering a question about the situation in Gaza.
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MPs clapped and cheered Delogu on as the national assembly president ruled his actions 'unacceptable’, before security guards removed the flag and MP from parliament. The LFI later posted on X: ‘We will continue to carry the voices of peace everywhere, all the time’

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