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France’s Marine Le Pen to go on trial for tweets showing IS atrocities
2019-06-13
[IsraelTimes] French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been ordered to stand trial over three Twitter posts from 2015 showing Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
atrocities, a judicial source tells AFP.

A judge in Nanterre, just west of Gay Paree, issued the ruling after Le Pen was charged last year with circulating "violent messages that incite terrorism or pornography or seriously harm human dignity" and that can be viewed by a minor.
In summary, showing the truth is more offensive than the offensive truth being shown.
The Daily Mail adds:
The charges carry a maximum sentence of three years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros ($85,000).

Last year, an investigative magistrate called for Le Pen to undergo psychiatric tests in connection with the ISIS tweets.

The 50-year-old trained lawyer has denounced the case as a violation of her freedom of expression.

She tweeted the images after a French journalist drew a comparison between Islamic State group and her party.

One of the pictures showed the body of James Foley, an American journalist beheaded by the Sunni hard boys.

Another showed a man in an orange jumpsuit being run over by a tank, and the third a Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a cage.

'ISIS is this!' Le Pen wrote in a caption, using an Arabic acronym for IS.

The prospect of a trial is a further legal blow for Le Pen, who was ordered last month to reimburse the Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an Parliament nearly 300,000 euros in funds she was accused of defrauding the EU.

The parliament claimed she used funds destined for EU parliamentary assistants to pay an aide for work carried out in La Belle France.

Le Pen's defeated President Emmanuel Macron's centrist party at last month's European Parliament elections.

The narrow victory came two years after Le Pen lost out to Macron in the 2017 presidential election.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  The Ewww, coming after LePen anticipating Frexit ?
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-06-13 09:05  

#2  So perpetrating atrocities is a lesser crime than reporting them. Ah, La Belle Frawnce. Toujours le meme.
Posted by: Mercutio   2019-06-13 08:07  

#1  The globalist NWO strikes back.

Can you imagine what they'd charge Pres. Trump with?
Posted by: AlanC   2019-06-13 07:55  

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