Last week, Pierre HURMIC made the decision to suspend any cooperation activity with Ashdod, Israeli city twinned in Bordeaux.
In a letter dating from June 26, the ecologist mayor of Bordeaux Pierre Hurmic informed Yechiel Lasry, the mayor of Ashdod in Israel, of the suspension of cooperation activities between the two cities, according to information from Rue89 Bordeaux confirmed to Figaro. While the twinning between the two cities dates from 1984, the councilor of Bordeaux made this decision temporarily, “As long as a sustainable ceasefire and a peace process will not be engaged”.
In this letter, he indicates that he “Deplores, like many, that the Israeli response in the gaza bands generates so many inadmissible suffering affecting Palestinian civilian populations, including children deprived of all humanitarian aid. ” He also writes that “Climbing and blind violence of this aggression inflicted by the government of Mr. Netanyahu violent not only international law but also the humanist values and requirements that our twinning must embody ”.
“A shocking decision”
A choice that did not fail to make his opponents react to the town hall of Bordeaux. “I discover the turnaround of Pierre Hurmic who alone decides to suspend our twinning between Bordeaux and the city of Ashdod in Israel, thus giving satisfaction to rebellious France. A shocking and incomprehensible decision ”reacted on X Thomas Cazenave, elected opposition from the Bordeaux renewal group. For his part, Nathalie Delattre, current minister responsible for tourism and future candidate for the town hall, believes that “Take such a decision without vote in the municipal council is a democratic forgetfulness”.
For Virginie Bonthoux Tournay, reconquest candidate! Declared to the next municipal elections, “it is a betrayal of Bordeaux values”. For her, the first councilor wishes to do “A media blow”. “Pierre HURMIC has given in to pressures, in particular the Palestine Action Committee, which launched a public petition and multiplied the demonstrations, and of political groups like Bordeaux in struggle, which claimed the end of the twinning, as well as votes close to LFI.”
In June 2024, during a municipal council, Pierre Hurmic had already been questioned about a possible suspension of twinning with Ashdod. He replied that Bordeaux was “Very attached” to this twinning and that he did not want “Cut the bridges” With the first port of Israel. It is clear that the ecological mayor changed his mind.
