The larger question is this: why should the question of stripping jihadis who have declared war against France of their French citizenship be one of human rights in the first place? Western leaders have a responsibility to protect their countries from enemy combatants who are ruthlessly, methodically and effectively destroying their countries from within. Like France now, Canada, under the former Conservative government, stripped citizenship from dual-national terror convicts, but then the Trudeau Liberals reversed the decision.
France is merely acting responsibly.
“ECHR Backs France’s Decision to Strip 4 Moroccans of French Nationality,” by Safaa Kasraoui, Morocco World News, June 25, 2020:
Rabat – The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said France’s decision to strip five dual nationals of their French nationality, including four former Moroccan convicts of terrorism charges, does not “violate human rights.”
The ECHR issued a press release to convey its arguments on the case today, June 25.
The statement said the five binational men, including a French-Turkish former convict, were sentenced in 2007 to six to eight years in prison for “participation in a criminal association for the purpose of preparing a terrorist act.”
The suspects received the sentences for their direct links with the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group. The cell was responsible for the Casablanca terror attacks of May 16, 2003, which killed 45 people, including three French victims.
The terror act also resulted in injuries among 100 people.
The convicts were released in 2009 and 2010 and France stripped them of their nationality in October 2015, Maghreb Arab Press (MAP) reported.
ECHR said France’s decision to deprive the former convicts of their nationality “did not have disproportionate consequences on their private life.”
The statement argues that terror violence “constitutes in itself a serious threat to human rights,” emphasizing that the loss of nationality had not made them stateless since they all have another nationality.
“The loss of French nationality did not automatically lead to removal from the territory,” the statement emphasizes….
French authorities stripped several other dual French-Moroccan nationals of their citizenship….