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The Paris Public Prosecutor’s office has dropped a probe into illegal drug possession against Rima Hassan, a French far-left member of the European Parliament, it said on Thursday.
The Paris Public Prosecutor’s office said in a statement the preliminary investigation did not reveal a “sufficiently substantiated offense”.
The probe was launched last week after police found cannabidiol, or CBD, and a substance that seemed to be a designer drug 3-MMC in her possession.
Hassan has denied illegal drug possession, saying in a post on X that she takes CBD for medical reasons.
Separately, Hassan will face trial in July over a comment she posted on X last month about a 1970s attack on an Israeli airport, the Paris prosecutor’s office said last Thursday.
The prosecutor’s office had also said that Hassan is the subject of six other investigations into possible hate speech while 16 others have been shelved.
Born in Syria, Hassan, 33, is of Palestinian descent and is a vocal pro-Palestinian activist and a fierce critic of Israel. She was elected to the European Parliament in 2024 for the French far-left party France Unbowed.
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The Paris Public Prosecutor’s office has dropped a probe into illegal drug possession against Rima Hassan, a French far-left member of the European Parliament, it said on Thursday.
The Paris Public Prosecutor’s office said in a statement the preliminary investigation did not reveal a “sufficiently substantiated offense”.
The probe was launched last week after police found cannabidiol, or CBD, and a substance that seemed to be a designer drug 3-MMC in her possession.
Hassan has denied illegal drug possession, saying in a post on X that she takes CBD for medical reasons.
Separately, Hassan will face trial in July over a comment she posted on X last month about a 1970s attack on an Israeli airport, the Paris prosecutor’s office said last Thursday.
The prosecutor’s office had also said that Hassan is the subject of six other investigations into possible hate speech while 16 others have been shelved.
Born in Syria, Hassan, 33, is of Palestinian descent and is a vocal pro-Palestinian activist and a fierce critic of Israel. She was elected to the European Parliament in 2024 for the French far-left party France Unbowed.
The BBC reports that an “early draft” of an apology from the Church of England said: “We acknowledge the lifelong impact of these experiences and the part the church played in a system shaped by attitudes and behaviours that we now recognise as harmful. For the pain and trauma experienced – and still carried – by many women and children in church-affiliated mother and baby homes, we are deeply sorry”.
A 2021 parliamentary inquiry found there were 185,000 adoptions involving unmarried mothers in England and Wales between 1949 and 1973 alone and that the state was ultimately responsible for the suffering caused by public institutions and employees involved.
Because the last mother and baby homes closed in the late 1980s and records are incomplete, campaigners say many more people were affected.
Phil Frampton, a writer and campaigner from Manchester, was born in an Anglican institution in 1953 because his parents had been in a mixed heritage relationship. His Nigerian father, a mining engineering researcher, was removed from the country after it became known, while his white British mother, a grammar school teacher from Birmingham, was sent to the Rosemundy mother and baby home in St Agnes, Cornwall.
Frampton said: “A lot of survivors will be delighted. What’s coming is a big victory after all the campaigning people have done over the last 20 years – providing that the wording is not mealy-mouthed and designed to protect the church. It will not be good enough for the church to say they were guided by the morality of they time – they were supposed to set the morality of the time and they did that by their actions.
“The church and state were the principal supporters of forced adoptions and they should be compensating all the survivors for the hell they put them through. If the church is fully open on this, under the new archbishop of Canterbury, then this is part of the pressure on the UK government to apologise. The UK is way behind in making an apology and providing access to records for survivors to find their children and parents, to bring closure and new beginnings.”
Research by Dr Michael Lambert of Lancaster University has indicated the use of the lactation-suppressing drug diethylstilbestrol, which has been linked to an increased risk of cancers, in some unmarried mothers’ homes, while an ITV investigation has revealed unmarked graves across England contain the bodies of babies who did not survive.
Giving evidence to the education select committee last month, the children and families minister, Josh MacAlister, acknowledged that the UK state “had a role” in historical forced adoptions and said the case for a formal apology was “being actively considered”.
The governments of Ireland, Scotland and Wales have all previously issued apologies, as have the Salvation Army and the head of the Catholic church in England and Wales.
In a new study published this week in the journal Science, Sandel and his colleagues document what may be the first observed “civil war” in wild chimpanzees. While chimpanzees have long been known to wage campaigns of lethal aggression on outsiders, witnessing a once unified group turn on itself is something new – and very human.
“Cases where neighbours are killing neighbours is more troubling and, in a way, it gets closer to the human condition. How do we have this seeming contradiction within us where we are able to cooperate, but then also very quickly turn on one another?” Sandel said.
“These shifting group identities and dynamics that we see in human civil war rarely have a parallel in other animals, but they do have a parallel in the case of chimpanzees.”
The researchers drew on more than three decades of behavioural observations of the well-studied group of chimpanzees to determine the permanent split in the largest known group of wild chimpanzees in the world. While the chimps had been socially cohesive from at least 1995 until 2015, something shifted in the group’s dynamics, and by 2018 two distinct groups had emerged – the western chimps and the central chimps.
With the two groups solidified, members of the western group made 24 sustained and coordinated attacks on the central one in the seven years that followed, killing at least seven adult males and 17 infants.
Scientists think that a similar rupture and civil war may have occurred in the 1970s within the chimpanzee group in Gombe, Tanzania, observed by the renowned primatologist Jane Goodall. But, at the time, our basic understanding of chimpanzee behaviour was too limited to fully appreciate the rarity of in-group violence.
In the case of the Ngogo chimps, a change in social hierarchies may explain the group’s fracture, researchers said, producing organised aggression and violence. On the day Sandel observed the chimps acting strangely in 2015, earlier that morning, the group’s alpha male had grunted in submission to another chimpanzee. Yet the group’s social structure had also been affected by the death of several key older individuals in the years that preceded the division.
“Their abrupt death likely weakened connections among the neighbourhoods, which then made the group vulnerable to this polarisation that happened when the alpha change occurred,” Sandel said. “Then there was also a disease outbreak in 2017 that probably made the split inevitable, or expedited it slightly.”
Central group male Morton (left) and western male Garrison (right) in 2013, before the split. Photograph: John Mitani/Science
That should cause some worry for ape conservation, as chimpanzees are threatened with extinction. The study notes that, based on genetic evidence, these “civil wars” among chimpanzees likely only occur every 500 years. But any human activity that disrupts social cohesion – deforestation, the climate crisis or disease outbreaks – could make such inter-group conflicts more common, Sandel said.
Brian Wood, an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of California Los Angeles, who has also studied the Ngogo chimpanzees but was not involved in the new research, said it was important to consider what one group has to gain by attacking its former community members.
In the theory of Darwinian fitness – a measure of how successful an animal is in passing on its genes – “you can increase your Darwinian fitness by increasing your own survival, increasing your reproduction orby decreasing the survival and reproduction of your competitors,” Wood said.
“And this is what the western chimps have done. The central chimps, after facing the onslaught of the westerners, now have the lowest survivorship that has ever been documented in a wild chimpanzee community.”
Sylvain Lemoine, a professor in biological anthropology at the University of Cambridge, said: “Here we have the first thoroughly reported case of what can be qualified as civil warfare in the species … It shows that, even in absence of cultural group markers, social ties and network connectivity are the cement of group cohesion, and that these ties can be fragilised in specific circumstances, especially when they rely on few key individuals.”
