Right wing MEPs call for European Parliament to condemn Charlie Kirk murder

Published on 19/09/2025 - 6:30 GMT+2

The European Parliament should condemn the caller murders of American blimpish governmental activistic Charlie Kirk and Ukrainian exile Iryna Zarutska, according to a solution tabled by 84 close helping MEPs and seen by Euronews.

The shooting of Kirk successful Utah connected 10 September and the stabbing of Zarutska successful North Carolina successful August person been heavy condemned by US President Donald Trump.

Kirk’s sidesplitting has besides go a constituent of treatment successful Europe, with immoderate leaders expressing their condolences. Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called it “shocking” and “a heavy coiled for democracy”, portion European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said she was “shocked astatine the perfectly horrific assassination”.

A clash also took spot past Thursday during a plenary league of the European Parliament successful Strasbourg, erstwhile an MEP from the close helping Sweden Democrats enactment called for a minute's soundlessness to commemorate Kirk’s death, which was denied by vice-president of the Parliament, Socialist MEP Katarina Barley.

Now respective right-wing lawmakers privation an authoritative solution to beryllium voted connected by the Parliament, expressing solidarity with the victims’ families and calling for “zero tolerance” toward governmental and extremist violence.

The solution was promoted by 2 Italian members of the far-right Patriots for Europe (PfE) group, Susanna Ceccardi and Paolo Borchia (The League). “These brutal killings daze our consciences and amusement however governmental unit and ideological hatred tin onslaught indiscriminately,” declared Ceccardi and Borchia, successful a associated connection seen by Euronews.

"Violence, ideological hatred, and governmental intimidation indispensable beryllium opposed with zero tolerance successful each antiauthoritarian societies," reads the text, stressing that "media should study specified attacks honestly without soft-pedalling oregon suppressing information".

Other signatories of the solution travel mostly from the PfE group, but besides from the European Conservatives and Reformists, similar Poland’s Dominik Tarczynski, Italy’s Carlo Fidanza, and Sweden’s Charlie Weimers. 

Now the solution volition beryllium checked by the Parliament's President Roberta Metsola's office. Then, it is yet up to the Conference of Presidents, a assemblage formed by the presidents of Parliament’s governmental groups, to determine whether it volition beryllium connected the docket of the adjacent plenary session, to beryllium held successful Strasbourg from 6 to 9 October.

Other governmental groups person been asked for their positions connected specified a resolution.