According to a decree published in the Official Journal on Friday, the government has revoked the French citizenship of dual citizen Nour-Edin Beniato, who was convicted in 2018 of participating in a criminal association to prepare a terrorist act. “By the decree of November 16, 2022, with the consent of the State Council, Mr. Nour-Edin Beniato was deprived of his French citizenship.“, we can read in the Official Gazette.
He was arrested in 2016
Born in Oujda, Morocco in October 1991, who lived in Miramas (Bouche-du-Rhône), he disappeared from late 2013 to mid-2014 on suspicion of joining the ranks of the Islamic State in Syria. Nour-Edin Benyato was arrested in 2016 after persistently denying that he had traveled to Syria.
He was sentenced on appeal on December 6, 2018, to a terrorist conspiracy charge, to eight years in prison, with two-thirds security, continuous detention, according to a judicial source.
Before that, Mesut Shekerji also lost his French citizenship by the decree of March 31. Born in France in July 1995 in Eure, he arrived in Syria in 2013 and was sentenced to ten years in prison in April 2016 on an arrest warrant for a terrorist organization. According to the French government, since 2014, around 1,700 French citizens have left to join the Iraqi-Syrian jihadist regions.
In France, only dual citizens can be deprived of their citizenship (so as not to make a person a citizen), but not those, including those who were born French. Deprivation of citizenship can be decided in the case of an attack on the fundamental interests of the Nation or conviction for a crime or a terrorist crime. It is published by the decree of the Prime Minister with the consent of the State Council.
Source: Le Figaro
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