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Le Pen set to lose EU parliament immunity over IS tweets
Tuesday, February 28, 2017 13:47
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Brussels (AFP) – European lawmakers paved the way Tuesday for French far-right leader Marine Le Pen to lose her parliamentary immunity over her tweeting of images of Islamic State atrocities, officials said.
French prosecutors opened an investigation in December 2015 into the graphic series of tweets by National Front leader Le Pen, which included a photo of the decapitated body of US reporter James Foley.
The legal committee of the European Parliament on Tuesday backed a request by the prosecutors for Le Pen's immunity as a member of the EU's only elected assembly to be lifted, officials told AFP …. https://www.yahoo.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2017/02/le-pen-set-to-lose-eu-parliament.html
