Man is France screwed up!
Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s crypto-fascist National Front party, could be required to pay a $90,000 fine and spend up to three years in prison for tweets she sent in 2015 that showed images of executions by ISIS, according to the Associated Press:
French prosecutors filed preliminary charges Thursday against far-right leader Marine Le Pen for tweeting brutal images of Islamic State violence, in a new blow to a woman long seen as the face of Europe’s anti-immigrant populism...
Le Pen’s December 2015 tweets showed executions by IS extremists, including the killing of American reporter James Foley. She posted them in the wake of the November 2015 IS attacks on Paris, as she accused the government of not doing enough to protect France.
The Guardian defines the exact charge as circulating “violent messages that incite terrorism or pornography or seriously harm human dignity, and that can be viewed by a minor.†Le Pen has not commented on the charges but her lawyer reportedly confirmed their existence to the AP.
Le Pen sent the tweets in response to the French author Gilles Kepel, who claimed there were similarities between Le Pen’s party and the Islamic State. Le Pen responded by tweeting images of the journalist James Foley’s beheaded body, a man being driven over by a tank, and a man being burned alive in a cage. She captioned the photo of Foley with, “Daesh is this,†using another term for ISIS.
https://gizmodo.com/frances-favorite-crypto-fascist-could-face-three-years-1823423064
