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French MPs adopt bill to block minors from leaving for jihad

Oct 9, 2015 3:43 pm By Robert Spencer

Great idea. Don’t let them leave France. They will just have to find ways to wage jihad at home.

France police

“French MPs adopt bill to block minors from leaving for jihad,” AFP, October 8, 2015:

Paris (AFP) – French lawmakers adopted a draft law Thursday that will require minors to have permission from their parents or legal guardians before leaving the country in a bid to curb departures for jihad in Iraq or Syria.

At the moment, children in France only need their identity card or passport to travel, making it easy for them to fly to Turkey and make their way to Syria to join the ranks of the Islamic State group (IS).

The bill notes that the law, in place only since 2013, is “inadequate” in the face of “a large number of French minors who have gone to combat zones in Iraq and Syria.”

Parents can currently request that their children be blocked from leaving the country, but this is of no use if they are unaware of their plans.

In June a French mother tried to sue the state for not preventing her minor son from leaving to Syria, but lost the case as she had not requested he be stopped.

Lawmaker Meyer Habib noted that jihadism had become “a sort of fashion for directionless youth”, making the law all the more urgent.

Government’s parliamentary secretary Jean-Marie Le Guen welcomed the bill but said it would be difficult to implement in Europe’s passport-free Schengen zone and could create complications for children of divorced or separated parents.

Lawmakers also adopted a measure to allow prosecutors, who have been alerted by police, social services or education officials, to declare a ban on leaving the country.

According to recent government figures, more than 1,800 French citizens or residents of France have been involved in jihadist networks. Around 500 nationals are thought to be in Syria or Iraq, 133 of which have died.

A hotline set up for families to report radicalisation in April 2014 has drawn more than 3,000 alerts, 23 percent of which concern minors — most of them girls….

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  1. Angemon says

    Oct 9, 2015 at 4:46 pm

    Lawmaker Meyer Habib noted that jihadism had become “a sort of fashion for directionless youth”

    You don’t say!

  2. Kenneth T. Tellis says

    Oct 9, 2015 at 6:32 pm

    If a any minor attempts to go and join a Jihadist movement, arrest them in put them into a forced labour camp until the Jihad is wiped off the map. No more fooling around with minors anymore, please.

  3. dan celli says

    Oct 9, 2015 at 6:46 pm

    Does France rule ALL of France these day’s? NO. Taking refugee’s will destroy that country. Why would they want to go to Europe Instead of other African country’s ? Being nice to EVIL is STUPID !!!

  4. Mark A says

    Oct 9, 2015 at 10:37 pm

    Why not let them go and then keep them out of the country if they try to return?

    Strip them of their French citizenship and let them become citizens of the Caliphate.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 9, 2015 at 11:06 pm

      International laws and the UN UDHR forbid doing that.

      Syria and Iraq and Turkey don’t want us sending terrorists into their countries…do you want someone sending terrorists to YOUR neighborhood?

  5. mortimer says

    Oct 9, 2015 at 11:02 pm

    “blocking minors from leaving for jihad” will not stop jihad.

    Western countries should jointly create a curriculum for DEPROGRAMMING Muslims out of Islam.

  6. Islam :- the hateful religion of peace says

    Oct 10, 2015 at 5:06 am

    The French (and for that matter the rest of the western world) just don’t get it,, What Mark A says is the best solution and a solution that will (when the politicans get it) minimalise the danger ..

    Let them go, strip their passports, and Hey WAKE UP … Putin is doing us all a favour, let the Russians go to town,, (they need the status of saving the free world)

    There’s going to come a time when all the Muslims are going to kick to get what they want,, dominate the world ..

    The sooner this turns into a real “them and us” scenario (and it already is in the muslims eyes) the sooner we’ll start getting close to safer …….

  7. Oliver says

    Oct 12, 2015 at 4:45 pm

    My suggestion– get PLANELOADS at one time–hopefully, the minors, their parents, siblings; children ( hey, if the girls marry at 12, they have 1 or 2 t.i.d’s already ( terrorists in diapers). and have the plane piloted by a student of the Malaysian flight that went down 9or his instructors) — and hopefully the plane will go down in the ocean.

    Giving the fish some meat to eat, rather then sea vegetation and other fish.

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