Rowdy scenes erupted today after the European Parliament refused a hard-wing request for a minute of silence to honour slain US activist and Donald Trump ally Charlie Kirk.
Lawmakers on the European far right, which maintains close ties to Trump's White House, wanted the EU parliament, like the US Congress, to observe a silent tribute to the 31-year-old.
Video footage from Strasbourg, France, showed right-wing politicians shushing those speaking over the silence, before banging their desks and shouting 'shut up' and 'be quiet'.
'Our right to freedom of speech cannot be extinguished,' Charlie Weimers of the Sweden Democrats wrote to Speaker Roberta Metsola in requesting the gesture.
But when Weimers tried to observe the tribute by yielding his speaking time on the floor, he was cut short by the session chair, who reminded him the request had been denied for procedural reasons.
