Le Pen loses EU parliamentary immunity in twitter-posting case

Bloomberg

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen was stripped of her European Parliament immunity from prosecution because of a judicial investigation in France into the posting on
her Twitter account of images of murders by IS.
The European Union assembly voted by a show of hands on Thursday in Brussels to make the move against Len Pen, who leads the far-right National Front and is ahead in polls on the first round of France’s presidential election in April. The EU Parliament’s legal-affairs committee recommended on Feb. 28 that she lose her immunity.
The 28-nation EU assembly acted on a request made in October by French Justice Minister Jean-Jacques Urvoas in connection with an investigation being conducted by the Nanterre Regional Court.
The case involves the posting in December 2015 on Le Pen’s Twitter account of images showing three hostages being murdered by IS. The photographs were accompanied by a comment from Le Pen saying “This is Daesh!” The Twitter posting followed a French broadcast interview in which a comparison was drawn between the rise of the National Front and the activities of Daesh, according to the EU Parliament’s legal-affairs committee.