3,000 activists gathered in Villepinte to attend the meeting of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Manon Aubry and the other rebellious candidates. The situation in Gaza emerged as the main theme of this campaign for the European elections next June.

Rima Hassan, rebellious candidate and Franco-Palestinian activist, was welcomed like a rockstar despite her support for the Hamas actions of October 7. La France insoumise is using the fear of seeing these two conflicts imported into France to try to mobilize abstainers.