With 140 votes against 113 and 14 abstentions, the deputies of the hemicycle rejected, this Tuesday, March 7, a Renaissance bill which intended to impose ineligibility on the perpetrators of domestic and intra-family violence.
In less than half an hour, the meeting became stormy, even chaotic: after a double arm of honor from Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti addressed to Olivier Marleix, the boss of the Republicans, Aurore Bergé, the rapporteur of the said law, was interrupted several times by the rebellious Danièle Obono, then by another deputy who shouted at her "Hold your nerves!".
Aurore Bergé was then silent for a moment, before repeating, stunned, the sentence that had just been struck at her.
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“Nobody knows the intimacy of what we can experience”
This injunction seemed, in fact, to upset her in particular.
It is clear that, interrupted several times, the President of the Macronist deputies struggled to finish her remarks: "I conclude... because, Madam President (
of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, editor's note
), no one knows the intimacy of what we may experience or what we have experienced.
I know exactly what I'm talking about when I talk about domestic violence," she said.
Applauded by her group, she nevertheless faced a mostly stormy audience.
Yet allies of Renaissance, the MoDem and Horizons, for example, regretted a “law of circumstance” or a “dictatorship of emotion”, reports
AFP
.
While they had announced not to oppose the text, the LR deputies also voted against.
The bill follows the case of Adrien Quatennens, sidelined from the LFI group due to a conviction for domestic violence.
Aurore Bergé at the National Assembly.
(Paris, February 13, 2023.) Abaca
The content of the bill
The bill, not retroactive, aimed to extend the scope of the additional penalty of ineligibility in the event of conviction for aggravated violence, in particular domestic violence.
More specifically, it concerned violence resulting in total incapacity for work of less than or equal to eight days, and perpetrated against a minor under the age of 15, the spouse, a so-called "vulnerable" person, or even in case of racist motivation.
Accused of “instrumentalization” (by Danièle Obono in particular), the one who carried the law replied: “I will not hear for one more minute that I am not sincere in this fight.
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