Overview

• Nour Atallah’s social media account contained posts praising Hitler and urging execution of Israeli hostages, discovered days after her arrival on a government scholarship
• Sciences Po Lille rescinded her admission upon verifying that her messages clashed with the school’s anti-racism and anti-discrimination principles
• The Lille public prosecutor opened an investigation for apologie du terrorisme and apologie de crimes contre l’humanité linked to online hate content
• Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau ordered the student’s account shut down, referred the case to the Pharos cybercrime unit and declared that Hamas propagandists have no place in France
• The Foreign Ministry will re-screen all Gaza students already in the country and keep evacuation operations frozen until security procedures are overhauled and the probe concludes