Americans Against Abuses of Polygamy
Polygamy is illegal in France and it was cited by one of Sarkozy’s ministers as one reason for the riots that ripped through the country’s suburban slums in 2005. via Daphne Branham, writing for the Vancouver Sun. Foreign-born polygamists to be stripped of French citizenship – Think Tank.
A Muslim Frenchman cited by officials as a reason behind a crackdown on polygamy has been charged with aggravated rape, the state prosecutor said Sunday. via The Canadian Press: Muslim man at centre of French firestorm over polygamy charged with aggravated rape.
Interior Minister, Brice Hortefeux had announced that he would use all his powers and make sure that Lies Hebbadj, an Algerian-born French butcher of Muslim faith was made to give away his French citizenship. Lies Hebbadj was accused of polygamy together with child benefit fraud. via Sarkozy to Take Away French Citizenship of Criminal Offenders [...]
France’s interior minister proposed Sunday to strip French nationality from foreign-born residents for human trafficking and female genital mutilation, widening controversial proposals to fight crime. … Hortefeux, who had already threatened to strip a Muslim man of his French nationality for polygamy, said “loss of nationality must be allowed … also in cases of female [...]
