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Europe
Paris to strip citizenship of convicts in killing key state figures
2010-10-01
[Al Arabiya] French politicians have adopted an amendment in a bill toughening immigration law that would strip nationalized citizens of their nationality if convicted of murdering a police officer or anyone representing the authority of the state.

Critics say the measure amounts to turning immigrants who obtain French nationality into second-class citizens.
How, exactly?
Critics should notice that this only applies to those naturalized citizens who engage in murder, and only murder of officials at that.
The conservative government's amendment was passed 75-57 with one abstention Thursday, in a more than half-empty chamber. It would strip citizenship from people naturalized less than 10 years ago if convicted of murdering police or other authorities.

President Nicolas Sarkozy says that French nationality "should be earned."

The full bill goes to a vote Oct. 12 before heading to the Senate.

The French government says the bill is aimed at bringing French law into line with European Union immigration directives, but rights groups accuse Sarkozy of pursuing a populist anti-immigrant agenda.

The law was put to cabinet by Immigration Minister Eric Besson in March and subsequently toughened by Sarkozy and Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux amid a security clampdown and accelerated mass expulsions of the Roma minority. Under current French law immigrants can be stripped of their nationality if they commit a crime against "the fundamental interests of France" or an act of terrorism.

The fifth immigration law in France in seven years, the bill makes it easier to expel foreigners, including EU citizens who "threaten public order" through repeated theft, aggressive begging or "abusive occupation of land."
That would be the gypsies, I think.
Rights groups say that equating begging or setting up caravans with public order issues plays on fears and prejudices -- and unfairly targets Roma.
Or fairly. That is the question, isn't it.
EU laws on freedom of movement currently only allow removal of EU citizens who represent a "genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society."

Sarkozy, whose approval ratings are at an all-time low, is seeking to consolidate his conservative base ahead of presidential elections in 2012.

The bill allows for the creation of ad hoc detention zones for fast-tracking asylum claims as if the would-be immigrant were not actually in France, making it easier to expel them to a country of origin or of transit.
Posted by:Fred

#4  This is why the Code Civil looks so alien to those whose legal systems are rooted in Common Law.

ENGLISH COMMON LAW
Posted by: Goldies Every Damn Where   2010-10-01 20:21  

#3  The Code Civil, French law, distinguishes between the common man and the elites in government. This is taken from its predecessor, Napoleonic Law, and it's predecessor, Roman Law.

This is why the Code Civil looks so alien to those whose legal systems are rooted in Common Law.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-10-01 14:15  

#2  Strip them of citizenship, then hang them.
Posted by: Skidmark   2010-10-01 07:12  

#1  Now, bring back the guillotine.
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2010-10-01 06:19  

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