What Is This Text on the Self-Defence of Police Officers that Worries Far Beyond the Left?
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The text, adopted on Tuesday in a broken National Assembly, provides that a police officer or a gendarmerie is systematically "presumed to have acted" in the legal framework when using his firearm.
A text discussed in the Assembly on Tuesday, and supported by the government, has attracted criticism from the left and human rights defenders, who denounce "a permit to kill".
On Tuesday, 7 July, Members of Parliament voted on a measure that would allow police and gendarmes to benefit from a derogatory penal regime, which has its origin in the far right and is now supported by the executive.
Samia El Khalfaoui is the aunt of Souheil, killed by a policeman during a refusal to comply on 4 August 2021 in Marseilles. In addition to fighting for (...)
A bill discussed on Tuesday aims to establish a presumption of self-defence for the security forces. An historical claim of the far right, used only under Vichy and during the Algerian war, recalls the politician Vanessa Codaccioni.
The proposal for a law on the presumption of self-defence of law enforcement officials is being debated in the National Assembly on Tuesday. Some associations have denounced the creation of a "permission to kill" and a form of immunity in principle for police officers and gendarmes. An idea far from being unanimous. The proposal for a law on the presumption of self-defence of law enforcement officers, originally tabled by MP LR Éric Pauget and s…
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