A bill passed at first reading by the National Assembly intends to more harshly repress racist or anti-Semitic remarks made in a non-public setting. The text will be examined by the Senate ‘in the coming weeks’ with a view to adoption by the end of 2024.
The discussion during the session was marked by a succession of heated debates and invectives, from one side of the hemicycle to the other. The climax of which was perhaps reached when Éric Dupond-Moretti, implicated by the RN deputy Julien Odoul, mimed the “quenelle” gesture.