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| Far-right French politician Le Pen charged over grim ISIL photos |
| 2018-03-02 |
| [Al Jazeera] French authorities have filed preliminary charges against far-right politician Marine Le Pen on Thursday for the "distribution of violent images" on social media website Twitter. Better if the public doesn't know, y'see... If convicted, Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front party, could potentially face three years in jail and a 75,000 euro ($90,000) fine. Keep 'em entertained... The tweets, written shortly after the 2015 Gay Paree attacks, showed executions carried out by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS) members. They included an image of the body of American journalist James Foley, who was decapitated in a widely circulated video by a member of ISIS. Another depicted a captured Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a cage. Another image showed a man in an orange jumpsuit being crushed by a tank driven by an ISIS fighter. A caption read "ISIS is THIS". Le Pen, who lost the 2017 presidential elections to Emmanuel Macron, later removed the image of Foley after his family condemned the tweet. Authorities started an investigation into the social media posts in 2015, shortly after Le Pen wrote them. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... as a member of the French parliament, Le Pen had some immunity against prosecution. But that immunity was stripped in November 2017 after an investigation by a cross-party committee, paving the way for Thursday's charges. "I am being charged for having condemned the horrors of ISIS," Le Pen told AFP news agency. "In other countries, this would have earned me a medal." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Like the Democrats want to control the internet. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2018-03-02 07:36 |
| #1 a farce |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-03-02 06:49 |