Posted on 02/12/2023 5:48:32 PM PST by marshmallow
Populist Reconquest MEP Nicolas Bay has been stripped of his parliamentary immunity after allegations of “hate speech” over criticism of a mosque development in northern France.
French MEP Nicolas Bay, a member of conservative writer Eric Zemmour’s Reconquest party, was stripped of his immunity by the European Parliament on Thursday after French authorities accused him of hate speech.
The hate speech allegations date back to May of 2021 when Bay released a video on social media regarding the building of a mosque in the Normandy region. He is accused of linking the building of mosques to radical Islamic ideologies and to terrorism, Euractiv reports.
“The docile majority, the servile majority… voted to waive my parliamentary immunity […] We are not giving up, I will fight in French courts,” Bay said in response to the European Parliament vote.
Bay was formerly a member and vice president of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party. In February of last year when he was alleged to have passed on information to Eric Zemmour during the first round of the French presidential elections.
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We really take our First Amendment for granted. Half or more of us Freepers would be in jail for hate speech for simply stating the truth.
What is wrong with this world?
Satanists and their apologists are running the world.
When was the last time France or Biden sent to arrest a radical Imam for hate speech???
These totalitarian scum will not stop until some start to die for their crimes.
You know, if people could justify the Charlie Hebdo killings — and there were folks on discussion boards that very same day making comments like: “If people don’t want to be executed for blaspheming Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), then they should not be blaspheming the Prophet (pbuh)!”
Yeah, if woke lefties could justify what happened to Charlie Hebdo, they won’t even bat an eye at stripping away freedom of speech and expression.
Russia will not march across Europe, but if they did, stuff like this is why I would not GAF.
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