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The Washington Post reports:
Hollande is expected to put forward a bill this week to extend a state of emergency for three months, enhancing police power to restrict freedom of movement and gatherings at public places.
At Versailles, he also proposed constitutional changes that would allow authorities to withdraw French citizenship from people with dual nationality, even if they were born in France, and to prevent French terrorism suspects from returning to France.
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I feel this would be unproductive; among the problems Europe has long faced is that the children and even grandchildren of immigrants feel unwelcome in the nations of their birth: I understand there are some European countries in which birth does not convey citizenship. President Hollande's proposal would dramatically exacerbate the problem and so give rise to further terrorism.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2015, @05:54AM
This seems to be a desperate knee-jerk attempt to shut a gate that was opened by the Leftists after WW2. A bit late, as some of the terrorists are 2nd generation born on French soil. Europe's love of liberalism has come to roost. The grandchildren of those who perpetrated the crime against their own nations will be the ones to pay. Sad state of a mess.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 18 2015, @11:53AM
I think it's rather France's colonial past that is coming home to roost. Bet they never thought stuff like this would happen when they were kicking the snot out of Algerians.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Thursday November 19 2015, @01:25AM
Was there confirmation that the attackers were Algerian? I didn't see that on the BBC.
To be frank, a good chunk of Europe that had a navy participated in what was known as the Great Game of carving up the rest of the world into various colonial holdings. The British empire more or less broke apart after World War II. As far as I can remember from history, France still holds considerable sway from her formal holdings, such as both franc currencies used in Africa being pinned to the French Franc, and then later the Euro.
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 19 2015, @11:28AM
I used Algeria as shorthand for 'colonial past coming home to roost.' But Syria was also under French occupation.
Washington DC delenda est.