Right-wing lawmakers pushed for a tribute to the U.S. conservative influencer who was shot dead.

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola on Thursday rejected a bid by right-wing factions to hold a minute of silence for slain U.S. conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.

The initiative was first proposed by Charlie Weimers, an MEP from the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), as a symbolic measure “to declare that our right to freedom of speech cannot be extinguished,” according to an email chain with dozens of MEPs that was seen by POLITICO.

  • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    Did they hold a moment of silence when that minnesota dem senator was killed? Honestly curious if there is even precedent for them doing it even for a politician.

    I’m sure they don’t hold a moment of silence every time someone in the US dies of gun violence, since they would never be able to speak…

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      4 months ago

      Exactly… Kirk was literally indoctrinating children into a hateful, murderous ideology. All of this praise is sickening.