PARIS, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- The National Assembly, France's lower house of parliament, on Wednesday stripped far-right leader Marine Le Pen of parliamentary immunity for tweeting violent pictures of the Islamic State (IS).
The 22-member Assembly committee, the parliament's highest collegial authority, decided to remove Le Pen's immunity in response to a judge's request as part of an inquiry into posts of IS images on her Twitter account, it said in a statement.
The anti-Europe leader, who made her entry to the National Assembly for the first time in June's legislative race, is under investigation for tweeting three pictures of IS executions in 2015.
After she lost protection from prosecution, Le Pen tweeted: "It is better to be a jihadist who returns from Syria than a Member of Parliament who denounces the abjections of the Islamic State, we take less judicial risks."
Earlier this year, the European Parliament also voted to remove Le Pen's immunity to allow legal action against her for tweeting the same pictures.
Under French laws, an offender risks a three-year jail term and a fine of 75,000 euros (86,962 U.S. dollars) for publishing violent images. (1 euro = 1.16 U.S. dollars)
