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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.
(Emphasis added.)
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) by xav on Wednesday November 18 2015, @09:28PM
> > If someone was born in France, and is a citizen of France and France alone, and they are known to be a terrorist, why shouldn't this measure be used against them?
> There are international treaties on human rights (including from the EU) that France signed that prevent a country from making someone apatrid
Right. France signed the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness in 1961
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Reduction_of_Statelessness [wikipedia.org]
> instead of making a symbolic gesture like that mean more or less "not our problem" I would much prefer that we do the work and give them the benefit of a trial, prison sentence and the like
My understanding is that terrorists would get both: trial/prison AND loss of French nationality