Posted on 11/22/2015 6:34:45 PM PST by markomalley
The founder of France's right-wing National Front (NF), Jean Marie Le Pen, has urged the nation to reintroduce the death penalty – with decapitation. As France begins to patch the wounds inflicted by Islamic State (Isis) militants on its streets last Friday, the controversial 87-year-old has called on the nation to think about reintroducing the guillotine.
Last Friday, 130 people were murdered in co-ordinated attacks in Paris and in the week following several arrests have been made by French, Belgian and Turkish police across Europe. IS themselves have previously beheaded journalists, aid workers and soldiers in an attempt to shock the west and gain followers.
Le Pen has publicly feuded with the new NF leader, his daughter, Marine Le Pen in the past. And he was dismissed from the party after anti-semitic comments about the Holocaust in 2011.
France used the guillotine through long periods of its history as a punishment, the practice dating back to as early as 1210. France abolished the death penalty in 1981, and the final three people to suffer the punishment were child-murderers Christian Ranucci on 28 July 1976 in Marseille, Jérôme Carrein on 23 June 1977 in Douai, and torturer-murderer Hamida Djandoubi on 10 September 1977 in Marseille.
Speaking at a press conference held at his home in the west Parisian suburb of Saint Cloud, Le Pen said: "We must restore the death penalty for terrorists, with decapitation," according to French magazine Marianne. During the interview he added that France should prepare for a further 100,000 prison spaces to deter further attacks, and urged the automatic deportation of illegal immigrants.
Le Pen has already advocated the guillotine as retribution for Hauchard Maxime, a French jihadist who allegedly beheaded Syrian soldiers in the Middle East. He also believes that citizens of a foreign background should be forced "to make a choice", thus completely eradicating dual French citizenship.
His daughter, Marine, has declared that she wants to hold a referendum on the death penalty if she is elected into office in 2017. The EU stipulate that any state in the union must have abolished the death penalty.
A family feud at the heart of the NF emerged last year when Jean-Marie refused to apologise for describing the Nazi gas chambers, in which millions of Jews were killed during Second World War, as a "detail of history". Marine has tried to rebrand the party bringing it closer to the centre of French politics.
A judge in 2015 ruled that the NF's attempts to expel Jean-Marie as correct procedure had not been followed and the decision should be reviewed by the party's executive committee. Following the committee hearing on 20 August, he launched an attack on his daughter, saying: "She was in command of the firing squad over the telephone. She didn't want to take part because it's wicked to kill your papa, so she didn't kill her father directly, she had him killed by her henchmen."
Only if there is bacon fat on the blade.
Jean Marie is an anti-Semitic nut. His daughter seems to be a bit more sound though.
Responding to foreign terrorists with a little home-grown terror—I like it.
As long as the blade is dull and only pulled up to half height, but they can reset and drop the blade as many times as it takes to achieve separation.
Works for me. Reinstall it at the Place de Concorde...for old times sake.
Cruel and Unusual doesn't apply in France.
She has also refused to say that she would not conduct mass deportations.
I think she may be the next president of France
Use multiple blades.
Dull ones.
Rusty, dull ones.
Rusty dull ones coated with you know what.
Nothing is too good for ‘em.
Yep. If Jean-Marie really wants to help France, he should keep his mouth shut. Because even when he is right, he'll be reminding voters of the National Front's muddy past.
Don’t give the other side any ideas. There are so many ways to torture men the list is endless. For said reason I say no to this idea. They are willing to die anyway. Their is only one way to deal with ISIS. It is the only way to remove the problem. Its not cruel; its just the only solution because they will not stop and their own people will not reign them in.
Just like the Reign of Terror, except then the people were the terrorists, while today it’s just the muslims.
Much too fas a beheading. Needs to be slow the way they like to do it.
The guy is 87 YEARS OLD, he could retire to Mauritania (or whatever) and NEVER have to worry about ‘issues’ in his short remaining life.
But he DOES NOT. He LOVES his country and is FIGHTING LIKE MAD for its survival.
He is AMAZING.
How about a moratorium on Muzzie immigration for a few decades?
Deport the troublemakers.
No need to resort to hyperbole.
It would work. The Muslims don’t have ICBM’s... No Muzzies in America or Europe, then no 9/11, no Paris attack, no Boston bombing, no London subway bombing...
But, people in high places hate us more than they hate the terrorists.
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