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		</div><p>The French government has hardened its position towards dual-nationality terrorism convicts, saying they deserve to have their citizenship revoked as part of constitutional changes upholding the state of emergency imposed after the Paris attacks.</p>
<p>In a speech presenting the proposed changes, Prime Minister Manuel Valls also left open the possibility of prolonging the state of emergency beyond its current three-month window, describing an “unparalleled extraordinary situation, an unprecedented fight” that France is facing.</p>
<p>But the government’s proposal came under immediate criticism from human rights groups, including the French anti-racism organisation MRAP and Amnesty International.</p>
<p>But Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front, sent out a tweet saying it was the first effect of her party’s surge in support in France’s recent regional election.</p>
<p>The Paris attacks on November 13, which left 130 dead and hundreds wounded, were carried out in the name of the Islamic State group largely by French and Belgian extremists.</p>
<p>Afterwards, the state of emergency allowed security forces to impose house arrests and carry out searches without a warrant.</p>
<p>Mr Valls said that in 40 days, 2,900 searches had netted 443 weapons, including 40 military-grade arms.</p>
<p>In all, 1,000 people have left from France to join extremists in Syria and Iraq, Mr Valls said, by far the largest contingent from Western Europe.</p>
<p>“We know that the fighters are often grouped according to their language, to train and prepare actions on our soil,” he said.</p>
<p>This appears to have been the case for at least some of the Paris attackers, who included French-speaking men who had left to fight for Islamic State.</p>
<p>The plan to revoke citizenship for terror convicts has caused fissures in the Socialist government.</p>
<p>But France’s justice minister, Christiane Taubira, who had said she was opposed to the measure, was on stage next to Mr Valls when he announced it.</p>
<p>“It is a highly symbolic measure,” Mr Valls said. “This is a strong punishment that the nation is lawfully entitled to impose upon someone who commits the ultimate betrayal.”</p>
<p>Human rights groups said the plan was a long-time favourite of the far-right.</p>
<p>“This unfortunate plan, an old idea of the extreme right, validates the idea that there are two categories of French, even in crime, some who are a little less French than others before the law,” MRAP said in a statement.</p>
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