Posted on 03/02/2017 7:16:06 AM PST by Enlightened1
Having recently joined her competitor Francois Fillon in facing the French legal system over possible embezzlement charges of her own, after her chief of staff and bodyguard were detained by police last week, the push to isolate and crack down on the anti-establishment presidential candidate moved to the European Parliament where EU lawmakers lifted Le Pen's EU parliamentary immunity on Thursday for tweeting pictures of Islamic State violence.
Le Pen is under investigation in France for posting three graphic images of Islamic State executions on Twitter in December 2015, including the beheading of American journalist James Foley. Le Pen's immunity shielded her from prosecution. By lifting it, just over a month before the first round of the French presidential election after a request from the French judiciary, the parliament is allowing any eventual legal action against her.
The vote on Thursday by a large show of hands in the plenary of the EU Parliament confirmed a preliminary decision taken on Tuesday by the legal affairs committee of the EU legislature. In the report underpinning parliament's decision, eurosceptic 5 Star Movement lawmaker Laura Ferrara said that although the images posted by Le Pen were easily accessible on several websites, "this does not alter the fact that their violent nature is likely to undermine human dignity".
Le Pen's move was seen as not appropriate for a member of the European Parliament, the report said. Ferrara also said that there was no reason to think Le Pen was being persecuted judicially because "the speed at which legal proceedings have been taken against Marine Le Pen is comparable to the pace of other proceedings in matters relating to the press and other media".
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She tweeted pictures of ISIS atrocities.
This will only make her more popular.
The EU does not want the true nature of Islam exposed.
bttt
She’s practically begging them to go ahead. She’s already got the campaign theme fixed and will gain more popularity if they attempt to arrest her.
The polls and logic would dictate that Macron or Fillon should be able to beat her, but you just end up with a weird feeling that a bunch of people are out there and quietly prepared to elect her. She is some kinda modern Joan of Arc.
These EU members should executed by firing squad for what they’ve done to their people!
Shows how dumb the progtards are....lol
Keep it up, E(stablishment)U. People are getting real sick of your shit and your efforts to thwart your enemies will indeed bite you in the butt.
La pew EU .....
They can’t handle the truth!
There is a reason society has fought communists and ‘progressives’ with force of arms. The time approaches, again.
Exactly. They just added five points to her poll numbers. The French love their female martyrs.
The Founding Fathers had these guys number bigly!
She is learning how to fight the deep state and decades long rule of the leftist ideologue and apparatchik
First they attack you, then they persecute you, then you win.
The only “human dignity” it undermines is the mistaken belief that Islam can be lived with.
Simply, telling the truth about Islam is no longer acceptable.
The real “Islamophobes” are those who cowtow to the demands of dhimmitude, not those who resist Islam and who tell the truth about it.
Yeppers. Doing so might harm their efforts to import it and impair the further dechristianization of Europe.
It will.
And it is an expected step towards the French revolution style end to the European Union and its bureaucrats which students of European history have predicted for over a decade.
This time around they probably won’t bother with elaborate guillotines.
These fools seem determined to propel her to an outright win.
Vive Le Pen.
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