The European Parliament's legal committee recommended that the National Front leader have her protection from prosecution as an MEP revoked, which could result in her being put on trial.
The full parliament is expected to formally lift her legal immunity after a vote on the recommendation on July 3.
Le Pen sparked outrage after she slammed Muslims praying in the street in areas where there are no mosques in a speech to National Front supporters in December 2010.
"For those who like to talk about World War II, to talk about occupation, we could talk about, for once, the occupation of our territory," Le Pen told the rally.
"There are no armoured vehicles, no soldiers, but it is an occupation all the same and it weighs on people." » | Charlotte Meredith | Thursday, June 20, 2013
My comment:
Why should Marine Le Pen face prosecution for stating the obvious? It is indeed as though France had been occupied by a foreign power. During WWII it was the fascists; now it is by the Islamo-fascists. What's the difference? They are both anti-democratic, totalitarian ideologies. In my opinion, it is an outrage that Marine Le Pen cannot state what is on her mind without being liable to prosecution. Aren't people to be allowed independent thought from now on? Has political correctness taken such a hold on the weak-minded politicians in the West that stating anything other than pc platitudes is 'strengstens verboten'? – © Mark
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