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2015-01-24 Europe

Court Says French Jihadist can be Stripped of Nationality

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-01-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 La Belle France's top legal body ruled Friday that stripping a binational convicted jihadist of his French nationality was lawful, just as the country upped its fight against extremism.

Evidently citizenship still means something in France.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-01-24 06:35|| 2015-01-24 06:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Unless you're rich and want to remain rich or at least comfortable. Then its negotiable.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-01-24 09:35|| 2015-01-24 09:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Unless you're rich and want to remain rich

The government let the 75% or whatever it was surtax in millionaire incomes expire at the end of last year, as it unexpectedly lost the government significant money instead of providing the planned surplus. Which doesn't mean someone else won't come up with exact same idea in a decade or two -- France seems to trundle round the same cycles every generation. It's the Fifth Republic now, as I recall, and each previous one was followed by revolution and restoration. Though to be fair to the fourth, the second world war did somewhat force things.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-01-24 12:02|| 2015-01-24 12:02|| Front Page Top

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