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Immunity
Brussels, March 2, 2017 (dpa/NAN) The European Parliament has stripped far-right French lawmaker and presidential candidate Marine Le-Pen of parliamentary immunity for posting graphic images of victims of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group.
The lifting of immunity allows a Paris court to prosecute her for posting three images of IS brutality on Twitter in 2015, including a photo of the decapitated corpse of U.S. journalist James Foley.
The EU Parliament voted by a show of hands on Thursday.
“I think the results are clear, a broad majority is backing this,” the EU lawmaker chairing the plenary session said.
Parliamentary immunity is intended to protect EU lawmakers against intimidation attempts. (dpa/NAN)
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