Jean Castex said on Tuesday October 20 that he wanted to "
take up the subject
" of online hatred by creating a "
crime of endangering the publication of personal data
" on the Internet, after the beheading of a professor in the Paris region.
"
We can no longer bring ourselves to passively witness the unleashing of hatred on social networks,
" said the Prime Minister during the session of questions to the government.
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The majority had tried to tackle this issue through a bill from LREM deputy Laetitia Avia, largely rejected by the Constitutional Council.
"
The censorship of the Constitutional Council must lead us to take up this subject in another form, which will have to create an offense of endangering by the publication of personal data
", continued Jean Castex, estimating that "
it is good because it was indicated by the social networks that Samuel Paty was assassinated
”.
Teachers from the Bois d'Aulne college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine also expressed in a press release Tuesday their "
deep concern about the impact of social networks
" after the assassination of their colleague.
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Arrested by several presidents of parliamentary groups - Patrick Mignola (MoDem), Valérie Rabault (PS), Damien Abad (LR), Christophe Castaner (LREM), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI) and André Chassaigne (PCF) - after the beheading of the teacher, Jean Castex denounced "
any ambiguity
" towards radical Islamism, which would amount to "
a beginning of renunciation
".
The "
enemy is radical Islamism, it is a permanent threat, a threat which can come from outside, but which can also, I say it bluntly, recruit these killers from among our own compatriots
", he stressed.
"
It is a permanent threat, a threat which can come from outside, but which can also, I say it bluntly, recruit these killers from among our own compatriots
", he underlined.
"
We are also paying the price of a relaxation, but today, the time has come for action
", insisted the Prime Minister by setting up in "
priority
" the "
protection of the personnel of the National Education
".
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The Prime Minister also assured to want "to
give additional means to the Ministry of the Interior
", without further details.
"
Our intelligence services, which are on the front line on this subject, have been consolidated, reorganized, as never before, and we are going to move up a gear
", added the head of government, who said he wanted to "
immediately assign reinforcements to the services responsible for monitoring radical Islamism on social networks
”.
He also mocked the Republicans' proposal to modify the Constitution, as voted on Monday in the Senate, in particular to include the preeminence of the rules of the Republic.
"
Here is a provision which will be fast, efficient and which will bring operational solutions to the subject
", quipped Jean Castex before launching to Damien Abad: "
You are in the mantra, we are in the action
".
