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French terror citizenship plans dropped Paris attacks: Hollande drops plans to strip nationality
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French president drops plans to change constitution to remove French citizenship from terror convicts French President Francois Hollande has dropped plans to change the constitution to strip militants convicted of terror attacks of their French nationality.
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. "A compromise appears out of reach," Mr Hollande said after the two houses of parliament failed to agree the reforms.
If you want to receive Breaking News alerts via email, or on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App then details on how to do so are available on this help page. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts. The proposal followed November's Paris attacks which killed 130 people.
But it ran into huge opposition and led to Justice Minister Christiane Taubira resigning in February.
Mr Hollande's apparent failure has shone a spotlight on the political quagmire surrounding the president, just a year before the country chooses a new leader, says the BBC's Lucy Williamson in Paris.
Mr Hollande's tough response to the 13 November attacks brought him a brief spike in approval ratings.
But with fractures running through both the governing Socialist Party and the centre-right opposition, this is one defeat Mr Hollande could do without, our correspondent adds.
President Hollande outlined the changes in the aftermath of the gun and bomb attacks by Islamist militants who targeted a concert hall, a major stadium, restaurants and bars - leaving 130 people dead and hundreds more wounded.
The plans included emergency powers - currently in force - to be given a new status under the constitution, stripping those with dual citizenship of their French nationality if they were convicted of terrorist offences.
The lower house removed the reference to dual nationality when it approved the bill, even though opponents pointed out that the proposal still only applied to dual-nationality French Muslims, as under international law, governments cannot make citizens stateless.
The upper house, the Senate, restored the original wording that had sparked the initial debate.
Constitutional changes in France need the approval of three-fifths of the combined houses of parliament.