Marine Le Pen wants to "tear down their nationality" the French jihadists

Paris (AFP)

Marine Le Pen asked again Thursday the government to "dismantle their nationality by administrative decree" the French jihadists gone to fight in Syria, on the model of a decision made in this direction by Denmark for its binational nationals.

The Danish government announced on Monday that it is to remove from Denmark the jihadists with dual nationality who were fighting abroad to prevent them from returning to the country after the Turkish offensive in Syria forced members of the Islamic State group to leave the area.

In France, can be deprived of their nationality only binational (not to make a person stateless), but not those among them, who were born French. The government failed in 2016 to pass a draft constitutional revision to extend the deprivation of nationality to those born French.

In Denmark, the government proposes to go through a decree, without any decision of a judge. In France, the decision is also made by decree but with the approval of the Conseil d'Etat.

The French government "is right" not to bring back the French jihadists but "it should go further and take a decision such as the one taken by Denmark, namely to remove from their nationality by administrative clergy all those who left fight in Syria, which would avoid any problem for the future to see these people who are obviously time bombs, "said the right-wing leader on Europe 1.

While these jihadists could be sentenced to death if they were tried locally, Marine Le Pen said that "it's a risk when you're a terrorist." The former presidential finalist in 2017 calls for a referendum on the death penalty to which she remains "personally favorable".

In January, Marine Le Pen wrote on Twitter that the French jihadists held by the Kurds were "jihadists, so they should no longer be French."

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian is in Baghdad on Thursday to discuss the possible transfer and trial in Iraq of foreign jihadists, including 60 French, in the hands of Syrian Kurds, currently targeted by a Turkish offensive that makes a " risk of dispersion ".

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