"Don't get all excited. The operative word is 'convicted'."
Why not?
Hundreds were arrested by the police in flagrante delicto.
What basis for defense is there?
Please note that French citizens will not be deported.
Also note: nobody will be deported to Guiane, as that is part of France.
Immigrants stripped of their visas will be deported back to their countries of origin.
The French state has, in the recent past, stripped naturalized radical Islamist clerics of their citizenship and deported them to their nation of origin as well.
What can't be done is stripping a native-born French of his citizenship.
That said, this will constitute a thinning of ranks.
The riots are already petering out, slowly, and there have been many arrests. Every arsonist deported to his country of origin is one less in France. That is a good start.
Expel all the foreign radicals, and continue the counterintelligence in the mosques.
And watch the star of Phillipe de Villiers.
"And watch the star of Phillipe de Villiers."
Who he? Must I Google?
Is one automatically a citizen if born in France (ala the U.S), or are children of non-citizens also non-citizens? IOW, just because these rioters may be 2nd generation, does that make them French citizens?
Yes, and what a surprise for them. They thought they could act lawlessly, maybe get arrested, and that nothing would happen to them. Instead, they have a trial, get convicted, and suddenly the French Interior Minister orders them deported. A stroke of brilliance! As they continued their burnings, night after night, they had no idea such a fate awaited them.