"In total, 19 dual nationals were stripped of their French passports in 2025, according to figures published in the police gazette l'Essor de la gendarmerie. The process followed convictions in the French courts, all for terrorism-related offences. The figures represent a fall on the previous year, when 41 people had their French passports removed. In 2023, 11 dual nationals lost their French citizenship, in 2022 six did, and four each in 2021 and 2020."
"The process for loss of French citizenship requires a ruling made at the Conseil d'Etat, and once citizenship is officially revoked a decree is published in the Journal Officiel. French law states that a person cannot be left stateless, so those who have only citizenship of France cannot have their nationality revoked, but dual nationals can be stripped of their citizenship under certain conditions. People who are born French cannot be stripped of their French nationality, but those who acquire French nationality can be stripped of it if they commit a serious crime within 15 years of becoming French."
In 2025, France stripped citizenship from 19 dual nationals following convictions in French courts for terrorism-related offences, according to police gazette figures. The 2025 total declined from 41 revocations the previous year and follows smaller numbers in 2023–2020. Of those stripped in 2025, nine were French-Moroccan and four Franco-Turkish; others held Algerian, Senegalese, Malian, Russian or Tunisian nationality. The most recent case involved Amar Ramdani, convicted of supplying weapons linked to the 2015 Hyper-Cacher attack. Revocations require a Conseil d'Etat ruling and a decree in the Journal Officiel, and cannot render people stateless.
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