According to foreign media such as the US "Politico" website, Charlie Kirk, a conservative American and political ally of President Trump, was shot and killed, a far-right wing congressman proposed to watch Kirk for one minute in the European Parliament venue in Strasbourg, France. After being stopped by the conference host, some conservatives and far-right MPs beat the table and protested loudly, and the order of the venue was once in chaos.
On September 10, local time, Kirk was shot and killed while giving a speech at Utah Valley University in Utah, USA. He was 31 years old. He is a conservative American politician who often holds events on university campuses to mobilize young voters and is a political ally of US President Trump. Kirk's shooting sparked widespread condolences from conservative groups in the US political arena, and Trump and some European leaders also expressed their condolences.
Reported that multiple emails from MPs confirmed that Swedish Democratic European Parliamentary Charlie Weimers was the first to propose a silence, which was then supported by the right and far-right party groups. European Parliament President Roberta Metzora refused to propose silence on the 11th, saying similar memorial activities can only be held at the opening of the plenary session, and the opening ceremony of this session has ended, and the next opportunity to propose silence will be in October.
Afterward, as the agenda continued, Weimers tried to give up her speech for silence, but Katarina Barry, the deputy speaker of the European Parliament and member of the German Social Democratic Party, who chaired the meeting, immediately interrupted Weimers' speech and emphasized: "We have discussed this issue, you know the speaker refused a minute of silence." Her speech preventing the silence activity was supported by the applause of centrists and left-wing MPs on the scene.
The report mentioned that the European Parliament's center-right, liberal and left-wing party groups did not make any statement on the proposal to watch silence, saying that the matter was entirely decided by the chairman of the venue.
Some European MPs knocked on the table to protest after obstructing Kirk's silence. Source: Video screenshot
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