(ANSA) - PARIS, NOV 19 - Strong controversy is mounting in France against the bill on 'global security' under discussion in Parliament.
The bill limits, in particular, the dissemination of images of police officers, a provision that the majority of the media consider a possible obstacle to the right to information.
In several French cities, thousands of protesters have protested over the past two days against what is called a "liberticidal law".
In Paris, about thirty people were stopped after a demonstration at the Assemblée Nationale press.
A journalist on public TV France 3, who filmed these police stops, spent 12 hours in custody.
The new law on so-called "global security" includes measures designed to respond to the protests of police unions, which complain of increasing threats and aggressions.
The subject of a particularly heated dispute is the provision that provides for a penalty of one year in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros for the dissemination of "images of the face or other identification element" of a policeman or gendarme during an intervention, when this aims to "endanger his physical or psychological integrity ".
The associations of journalists announce a measure that will be applied not only to the media but also to any citizen who will resume a police operation.
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