Posted on 03/01/2019 10:48:35 AM PST by robowombat
French Justice Minister says France will support Islamic State jihadists if they’re sentenced to death in Iraq
France’s Minister of Justice Nicole Belloubet “has announced that the government will intervene should French Islamic State members be sentenced to death in Iraq for their activities.”
Islamic State jihadis are at war with the West and pose a grave danger to innocent people. Far too many leaders prioritize their rights over the rights and safety of citizens that they have a duty to protect. Yet Islamic State jihadists will in most cases continue their jihad in Western countries once they’re allowed back in.
This should be obvious. And it is in Iraq, if not in France or Britain. Back in July, Abdul Sattar Beraqdar, a spokesman for Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council, “said British members of ISIS deserve to die” and stated that “the punishment, as much as it seems strong, will affect the security of your country….I am sure there are hundreds of people in Britain at this moment thinking of committing similar crimes…. That’s why we, as Iraqis, if we are tough in sentencing these people.”
Belloubet thinks she knows better than Beraqdar about the Islamic State and the power of its indoctrination.
“France Will Intervene if ISIS Fighter Citizens Sentenced to Death in Iraq,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, February 28, 2019:
France’s Minister of Justice has announced that the government will intervene should French Islamic State members be sentenced to death in Iraq for their activities.
Thirteen French Islamic State fighters face trial in Iraq after being captured in Syria and under Iraqi law, the penalty for anyone caught providing material aid to Islamic State or other extremist organisations is death, Le Parisien reports.
Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet said that the French would allow the Iraqis to judge the foreign fighters but would insist on imposing a limit which would not allow the use of the death penalty.
” There are French adults who have knowingly gone on the battlefield, it is not illogical that they are responsible for their actions where they committed them,” Belloubet said.
“We are on the one hand ensuring that the rights of defence are ensured and on the other hand the French who are entitled to consular protection. We, therefore, will ensure the minimum of respect for the right to a fair trial,” she added.
The upcoming trials are just the latest of foreign fighters from Europe. Last year, the Iraqi courts sentenced French national Melina Boughedir to life in prison for being a member of Islamic State.
During the trial, the 27-year-old’s lawyers complained that the French government had worked proactively to stop her and other jihadists from returning to France.
Earlier this month, authorities revealed that France could be looking at hundreds of possible returning Islamic State members with the state services estimating there could be as many as 300 men, 300 women, and 500 children waiting to be repatriated
I wish we didn’t spill ONE DROP OF BLOOD for these ####s!!
And I’m quite sure french soldiers KILLED ours in battle during WWII.
I know I read it, don’t remember the particulars.
I spit on that whole country.
They did worse to women after WW2 just for being seen on a date with a German. Go figure.
How many million people are we talking about in France?
In related news, back in 2015 Marine Le Pen tweeted some pictures of ISIS atrocities. The pictures were legitimate. The plain truth.
Now the French government wants to prosecute her for that.
https://www.france24.com/en/20190301-french-prosecutors-want-le-pen-tried-over-tweet
In a word: Why?
> And I’m quite sure french soldiers KILLED ours in battle during WWII. I know I read it, don’t remember the particulars. <
I believe you’re referring to the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942. Vichy French troops firing on the landing British and American forces.
On the other hand, French partisans behind the lines in Algiers were quite helpful to the Allied cause. So I do not particularly single out the French here for blame. Every occupied nation will have its Vichy component.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Torch
Shoot them in the head twice this afternoon. Terrorist murderers.
OK.
I’m an open minded kind of guy.
I’ll hate the country for other reasons :)
Like their leader saying they need a military to protect them from Trump’s US.
Very well put. I will add they also have no problem burning down the country to meet their ends and are increasingly challenging Conservatives to a bloody fight.
Thus France is willingly bowing to the jihadis who will not show their gratitude for this favor.
OK sentence them to life in prison, then make sure that it’s really really short.
But, we didn’t sentence them to death...
I’d laugh at this French minister but I’m afraid that our pols would probably do the same.(SMH)
Thanks robowombat.
Stockholm Syndrome
The French won’t fight, but they’ll die for the rights of Jihadis. Lovely people.
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