French ships may escort pro-Palestinian civilian flotillas, Mélenchon says

French ships may escort pro-Palestinian civilian flotillas, Mélenchon says France's far-left presidential contender Jean-Luc Mélenchon has said that French ships will, if necessary, escort flotillas of citizens as he vowed "direct action" to come to the aid of the Palestinians, both against the genocide in Gaza and against the gradual annexation of the West Bank. "French ships will, if necessary, escort flotillas of citizens mobilising to assert their rights," Mélenchon wrote on X. "We do not accept the gradual ann