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“When will we have a real internal security programming law?”

2020-11-26T15:06:59.595Z


THE MACRONOMETER - Between the law on global security, that on separatism and that on juvenile delinquency, the government is dispersing, estimates the iFRAP, which gives it a 5/10. Each week, the think-tank evaluates the action of the executive.


Le Figaro

In terms of internal security and while France is still on high alert for attacks, the government seems to be walking on eggshells, and gives the impression of slicing down legislative texts.

The global security law is under discussion.

The so-called separatism law (renamed "

confirming the republican principles

»), Then the law on juvenile delinquency, as if the government wanted to slice up the subjects so as not to be accused of amalgamating.

It is wrong, because everything is linked.

France has not had a major internal security planning law since 2011. At the time, it was Michèle Alliot-Marie who was Minister of the Interior.

The previous one dated back to March 2002. A programming law would require much clearer commitments from the French executive, with a budgetary perspective.

In the comprehensive security law

, we are witnessing the strengthening of the skills of municipal police.

But the approach does not go to the end of its object: the law does not establish a general principle by default of arming of municipal police (so that that of the city of Paris will not have firearms!) .

No establishment of a national school of territorial police (instead of the ad hoc training courses delivered by the CNFPT) allowing to have minimum uniform standards in this area.

In terms of securing the use of video protection and image capture technologies, the text does not advance on the generalization of video protection in metropolitan areas, nor of facial recognition.

Nothing on the use of artificial or predictive intelligence in the fight against crime, nothing specifically in the area of ​​anti-terrorism.

Nothing either on the strengthening of the legal arsenal in terms of air and border police (especially in Paris where the perimeter of the Paris police headquarters is not clarified on the fight against illegal immigration) .

With regard to private security, the text welcomes the profession as well as its "

professionalization

" and control.

In the secularism / separatism law

 : the preliminary draft of the text which will be in the Council of Ministers on December 9 (anniversary of the 1905 law) and which we have been able to consult does not say anything on questions relating to the radicalization of public officials (we are thinking here of the attack on the Paris Police Prefecture), nothing on the obligations to leave French territory, nothing on security detention for radicalized inmates or terrorists leaving prison, nothing either on respect secularism in companies.

Perhaps it will be added to the project by way of amendments?

At the most, we can only identify provisions relating to the policing of religions and their financing, the extension of the detection of radicalization to include provocation and apology for terrorist acts ... This text would not be voted until the very end of 2020, or even in 2021. At this stage, the operational part of strengthening the resulting administrative and legal decisions is missing (compliance with OQTF targets, clear commitment to effective return to the border of radicalized foreigners).

Law on juvenile delinquency:

this law aiming to reform the 1945 ordinance may be adopted in 2021 on the occasion of the ratification of the ordinance of 11 September 2019. A section on the fight against juvenile delinquency isolated aliens could be included by amendment.

While the veil was finally lifted on the white paper on internal security on October 16 after months of waiting, a question arises: what is preventing this government from having a text adopted with a true global vision of the internal security?

The fear of a sling of his parliamentary majority?

The lack of global vision?

In any case, this addition of texts on security which jam the Parliament is very damaging for the French because it wastes a lot of time on extremely urgent subjects.

Le Figaro

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Le Figaro

.

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Source: lefigaro

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