The President of the University of Glasgow was prevented from entering France

President of the University of Glasgow, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta, delivers a speech before the French Senate to describe his experience as a doctor in… gauzeHe had to return from Paris Roissy Airport to London without being able to enter French territory due to the Schengen Area ban imposed by Berlin.

“I am at Charles de Gaulle Airport. They are preventing me from entering France. I will deliver a speech before the French Senate today,” he wrote to X. They say the Germans prevented me from entering Europe for a year.”

The German government is expanding its surveillance across Europe. “A London surgeon who testified about the ongoing war in Gaza after operating during the conflict has been banned from entering France,” due to Germany’s Schengen-wide ban. https://t.co/djzn3uSE3r

– Kenneth Roth (@kenroth) May 4, 2024

A police source confirmed to Agence France-Presse that Germany had issued an entry ban order to the Schengen area and prevented him from entering Paris. A police source said that he finally boarded a plane bound for London in the late afternoon.

In mid-April, Berlin banned Ghassan Abu Sitta from entering Germany, as well as Yanis Varoufakis. They both attended the “Palestinian Conference” in Berlin, which was boycotted by German police an hour after its start.

When asked about his topic Yanis VaroufakisThe German authorities justified the ban on the basis of “preventing any anti-Semitic and anti-Israel propaganda.”

In a video posted the same day on Channel X, Ghassan Abu Sitta said he was banned from entering Germany “for the entire month of April.” He also denounced the “suppression of freedom of expression in Germany,” the country that is “a partner (of the Israeli army) in silencing witnesses to the genocide” in Gaza.

the Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta spent 43 days in Gaza Providing medical services, especially in Al Sifah Hospital. He was scheduled to attend a banquet in the French Senate organized by environmentalist Senator Raymond Poncet Mons.

“Scandal, plastic surgeon @Ghassan Abu Set who works in Gaza was banned from attending the @Senate banquet,” Guillaume Godard, head of the Senate Environmental Caucus, wrote on X.