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[Rick Halperin]

Aug. 12




FRANCE:

France Should Bring Back Death Penalty for Terrorism - French Lawmaker


France has to reinstate death penalty for terrorism in order to protect itself 
from the Islamic State (ISIL) militant group, Member of the European Parliament 
Jean-Luc Schaffhauser told Sputnik on Wednesday.

France has seen several major terrorist attacks by Islamists, since the 
beginning of the year, including the deadly January shootings in Paris and a 
failed attack on a gas factory near the city of Lyon in June.

"France has to protect itself from ISIL and has to take some tough decisions 
like deprivation of the citizenship of the French jihadists, eviction of their 
families, allow no return to France to jihadists, and if they do, we have to 
bring them to justice and restore death penalty for terrorism," the lawmaker 
said.

Capital punishment was abolished in France in 1981.

The IS is an extremist militant group that has occupied large areas of Iraq and 
Syria. The militants are known for numerous human rights atrocities, as well as 
for recruiting foreign fighters mainly through the social networks.

According to various estimates, 20,000 to 30,000 foreign fighters have joined 
ISIL ranks. The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation has 
reported that some 1,200 are French nationals, the largest number among EU 
members.

The deepening migration crisis in France originates from the country's colonial 
past, Jean-Luc Schaffhauser said.

"For France, it [immigration] is the old problem because we haven't well 
managed the end of colonialism and the development of post-colonial countries 
that were ... more advanced when we administrated them," Schaffhauser said.

Migrants from the African countries are of particular concern for France, the 
lawmaker added.

"As long as we won't create a real and solid development program in Africa, 
this [immigration crisis] will continue," he stressed.

The EU member countries have been confronted with a large-scale migrant crisis 
recently with tens of thousands of refugees risking a journey through the 
Mediterranean to flee violence in North Africa and the Middle East.

The situation in the northern French port of Calais has been in the spotlight 
in recent weeks with crowds of undocumented migrants attempting to enter the 
United Kingdom through the Channel Tunnel.

(source: sputniknews.com)