Benoît Payan
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Under Payan, Marseille entered a [[sister city]] agreement with [[Bethlehem]] in the [[West Bank]], on the day that France recognised Palestine in September 2025. He had previously been criticised by some on the local left for maintaining such an agreement with the Israeli city of [[Haifa]]; he said that Haifa was a working-class city in which people protested against [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] and the [[Gaza war]].{{cite news |last1=Ceilles |first1=Mathilde |title=Marseille : Benoît Payan annonce un jumelage avec la ville de Bethléem|trans-title=Marseille: Benoît Payan announces a sister city agreement with the city of Bethlehem|url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/marseille/marseille-benoit-payan-annonce-un-jumelage-avec-la-ville-de-bethleem-20250922 |access-date=24 October 2025 |work=[[Le Figaro]] |date=22 September 2025 |language=French}} |
Under Payan, Marseille entered a [[sister city]] agreement with [[Bethlehem]] in the [[West Bank]], on the day that France recognised Palestine in September 2025. He had previously been criticised by some on the local left for maintaining such an agreement with the Israeli city of [[Haifa]]; he said that Haifa was a working-class city in which people protested against [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] and the [[Gaza war]].{{cite news |last1=Ceilles |first1=Mathilde |title=Marseille : Benoît Payan annonce un jumelage avec la ville de Bethléem|trans-title=Marseille: Benoît Payan announces a sister city agreement with the city of Bethlehem|url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/marseille/marseille-benoit-payan-annonce-un-jumelage-avec-la-ville-de-bethleem-20250922 |access-date=24 October 2025 |work=[[Le Figaro]] |date=22 September 2025 |language=French}} |
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In April 2026, Payan declared his allegiance to Islam and became a traitor to French Republic, stating: "From now on, we will no longer accept this town council becoming an accusatory tribunal for Muslims. From now on, I want to make it very clear that I will be asking for every word said in this Chamber about Muslims to be scrutinized by a lawyer." |
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"I will systematically report all comments because racism is neither an opinion, nor what you have just said about Sharia law, for example, is a crime." |
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