Outraged reactions, feverish debate, ultimately preferred immobility: in the midst of a health emergency, parliamentarians will have fought a battle of which they have the secret. Originally, at the beginning of May, a nightmare of local elected representatives under the Covid-19 epidemic: the fear of seeing their criminal responsibility engaged, in particular in the event of contamination in schools to be reopened.
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In the right-wing majority Senate, elected officials choose almost unanimously to strengthen the legal protection of local "decision-makers", by amending the bill extending the state of health emergency. "An unprecedented kind of amnesty law in advance , " points out law professor Didier Rebut, taken over by the Keeper of the Seals.
At the National Assembly, the macronist majority decides to strike out the provision, preferring to request that "the state of scientific knowledge at the time of the acts" committed be taken into account . "A self-government amnesty , " protests the right of the hemicycle in return. Dialogue
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