I am being charged for having condemned the horrors of ISIS

NewsBharati    05-Mar-2018
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Paris, March 5: "I am being charged for having condemned the horrors of ISIS," this was said by former French President Marine Le Pen on Thursday while giving an interview to media.

 

Notably, the statement from Marine Le Pen came after the French authorities filed preliminary charges against her for the distribution of violent images on social media website Twitter. She said, "I am being charged for having condemned the horrors of ISIS (Daesh).” "In other countries, this would have earned me a medal," she added.

The leader of the far-right National Front party Le Pen if convicted then she could face three years in jail and a 75,000 euro fine. Importantly, the tweets written shortly after the 2015 Paris attacks showed executions carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant members.

They included an image of the body of American journalist James Foley, who was decapitated in a widely circulated video by a member of ISIL. Another depicted a captured Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a cage. Another image showed a man in an orange jumpsuit being crushed by a tank driven by an ISIL fighter. A caption read Daesh is THIS.

However, Le Pen later removed the image of Foley after his family condemned the tweet. Authorities started an investigation into the social media posts in 2015, shortly after Le Pen wrote them.