SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: Mr. Minister of Foreign Affairs @jnbarrot , With all due respect, your statement is cowardly and ridiculous for several reasons:

https://x.com/thomas_guenole/status/2058174683237822876

Translated from French

Mr. Minister of Foreign Affairs @jnbarrot
,  
With all due respect, your statement is cowardly and ridiculous for several reasons:  
1. The torture of political prisoners by #Israel is not solely the doing of Minister Ben Gvir; it is systemic (source: UN Committee against Torture).  
2. It is not for you to approve or disapprove of the flotillas, because when Israel prevents them from delivering their humanitarian aid to #Gaza, it is a war crime (Geneva Conventions).  
3. Your statement reproaches civilian humanitarian volunteers tortured by Israel for saturating your diplomatic and consular services. Consider the objectively vile nature of your remarks, and at the very least on this point, offer your apologies.  

Incidentally, consular protection is an obligation under international law. You have no right to complain about having to provide it.  
4. When the French volunteers of the 2025 flotilla, including your humble servant, were kidnapped, imprisoned, and tortured, you offered no word of condemnation and no gesture of support. It was the Greek state, not you, that brought us back to Europe by plane. Your indignation in 2026 therefore amounts to hypocrisy: you are indignant because, due to the damning videos, you can neither downplay nor stay silent.  
5. Insisting so heavily on your hostility to the flotilla, on the condemnation of tortures by Israeli public officials, and on the fact that France is not alone in condemning them, can only be explained by your fear of Tel Aviv. As France's minister, you should be ashamed of your weak character.  
Shame on you, Mr. Minister.  
ThG