Looks like Marine Le Pen might have to wipe that smurk off her face.
The politician, who thinks herself the standard bearer of ultra right ideology, is now devoid of her immunity protection and might stand trial for comparing Muslim prayer in the streets to the Nazi occupation of France in the Second World War.
The European Parliament has voted almost unanimously to strip the politician of her immunity protection. The decision will now have to be ratified in the French Parliament.
The European Parliament's decision came after French Authorities asked that the judicial affairs committee of the European Parliament vote on the matter.
Le Pen's party's Vice president, for his part, expressed dismay at the decision and at the possibility that Le Pen's loss of immunity could be confirmed by the French Parliament. He said, in fact, that it would be unheard of to lose her immunity "for having spoken the truth about the prayers in the streets which still take place....the French do not like when people hide the truth from them."
Marine le Pen, in addition, has taken over leadership of the National Front from her father, because he had several convictions for racism and anti-Semitism levied against him.
Source : Al Jazeera 6.2.13
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