(AFP) British-Palestinian doctor and Glasgow University rector Ghassan Abu-Sittah was on Saturday denied access to France where he had been due [to] address a meeting on the medical situation in war-torn Gaza.
Abu-Sittah said on X, formerly Twitter, that he had been invited to address French senators about his experience as a doctor in Gaza since the Israeli offensive there but had been blocked at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport.
“They say the Germans put a 1 year ban on my entry to Europe,” he wrote.
A French police source confirmed to AFP that France could not admit the doctor because it was bound by a German-issued ban on his entry into the visa-free Schengen zone of which both countries are members.
