Le Bourget Arms Show: Israeli defense companies will be present

Aeronautics Group LTD, Ashot Ashkelon, Uvision Air, Israel Aerospace Industries… From June 16 to 22, Israeli companies will be welcome at the Le Bourget arms show. International companies supplying war materiel to Israel —the Italian Leonardo SPA, the Norwegian Nammo, and the German Thyssenkrupp, among others—will be able to hold booths there. Representatives of the Israeli government will also have no problem being welcomed on site.

Having been referred to the Bobigny court by several NGOs, including Survie, Attac-France and Stop Fuelling War , this Tuesday afternoon they rejected all of their requests. For the latter, allowing such companies to exhibit at the Salon is a violation of "the provisions of French law prohibiting international crimes." Not for justice.

By welcoming these disputed companies, the event's organizing company (SIAE) is not "clearly" violating its obligations, the Bobigny court ruled. Assessing the merits of access to the show based on "the potential impact of their presence on the commission of acts contrary to criminal law" would require, on the part of the SIAE, "legal analyses" that it "does not appear capable of conducting. " It is not guilty of "any disturbance of public order."

The development of commercial relations at the fair "is only possible at this stage," the judge said. Their consequences, in terms of worsening the "damage currently suffered by the Palestinian people," are "uncertain." Move along, there's nothing to see.