Prisoner Behind France’s First Jihadist Prison Attack Stripped of Nationality

A prisoner who committed France’s first prison jihadist terror attack has been stripped of his French nationality. The decision to revoke Bilal Taghi’s citizenship was published in the Official Journal of the French Republic on Aug. 7. According to a joint article by Le Parisien and AFP, Taghi, who was born in Morocco, was sentenced to 28 years in prison in 2019 for attempting to assassinate two guards in France’s first jihadist attack in prison, in Osny prison near Paris. ISIS The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point provided more details in a 2020 report about Taghi’s attack, noting that he was 24 years old at the time of the incident and had sharpened the hinge of his cell window into a sharp object....