Marine Le Pen Stripped of EU Parliamentary Immunity

 

By Catherine Hardy

MEPS sitting in Strasbourg have voted to strip Marine Le Pen of her parliamentary immunity.

The vote by the full chamber comes a decision taken by a parliamentary committee earlier this week.

There was no immediate comment from Le Pen.

Le Pen, who is a member of the European Parliament as well as being French presidential candidate, is under investigation in France for posting three graphic images of ISIL executions on Twitter in 2015. They included the beheading of the US journalist James Foley. 

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Source: euronews.