VIDEO. Comprehensive security law: "I will seize the Constitutional Council myself", promises Castex

A few hours before the solemn vote on the controversial bill relating to global security, which aims to penalize the malicious dissemination of the image of the police, scheduled for Tuesday at 5 p.m., Prime Minister Jean Castex told the deputies of the National Assembly, which he himself will refer to the Constitutional Council regarding article 24.

He also recalled that this law was intended to "protect the police" and "that it will not be the government's intentions to undermine freedom of the press and freedom of expression.

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"I have no doubt that the parliamentary debates which will continue to continue will make it possible to improve it further and to clarify what still deserves to be done so that there is no doubt about our firm intention to ensure the essential protection of our people. security forces in full respect for our democratic freedoms and the rule of law, ”added the head of government, referring the critics to“ trial of intent ”.

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A measure that divides according to opinions

To "protect those who protect us", thrown "in the pasture on social networks", the majority want to penalize one year of imprisonment and a fine of € 45,000 for the dissemination of "the image of the face or any other element. identification ”of members of the security forces in intervention, when it“ undermines ”their“ physical or mental integrity ”.

If the measure is acclaimed by the police unions, it arouses an outcry on the left and among defenders of public freedoms who saw it as "a disproportionate attack" on the freedom to inform and the sign of an authoritarian drift of the Macronie.