Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-06-04-Speech-3-051"
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"en.20030604.2.3-051"2
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"Mr President, I fully agree with your decision, under these circumstances, to refer the request to the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market. I do not believe that parliamentary immunity places Members above the law, but that it is a guarantee against unjustified proceedings that the executive powers, through the intermediary of prosecutors, could instigate.
The problem is this, Mr President: what happens when a State, abusing the concept of
clearly violates the parliamentary immunity of a Member of this Parliament and eventually, through a series of criminal proceedings, deprives them of their mandate? That is the case of Mr Le Pen: whatever we might think of Mr Le Pen’s opinions, the fact remains that the French Government did not ask for his immunity to be lifted before instigating criminal proceedings, which initially were against the law and were then artificially corrected in order to be able to deprive him of his mandate. I believe that, in such cases, our Parliament should refuse to give legal effect to these criminal sanctions and their indirect consequences, which are achieved illegitimately in such circumstances."@en1
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"in flagrante delicto"1
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