Thirteen terrorists deprived of French nationality from 2002 to 2018 compared to eighteen since 2019… If the figures are increasing, as shown by the latest report from the Ministry of the Interior, they nevertheless remain modest, betraying the cumbersomeness of a procedure subject to multiple conditions.
Thirty-one decrees forfeiting French nationality were therefore issued in 21 years, between January 1, 2002 and March 1, 2023. Seven were issued during Jacques Chirac's five-year term (one in 2002, one in 2003 and five in 2006), none during that of Nicolas Sarkozy, six under François Hollande (one in 2014 and five in 2015) when France suffered an unprecedented wave of attacks.
It should also be noted that the five forfeited in October 2015, four Franco-Moroccans and a Franco-Turk, had been convicted in 2007 of criminal association in connection with a terrorist enterprise in relation to facts dating back to 2003. it was about the attacks of Casablanca…
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