The LR vice-president of the National Assembly, Annie Genevard, said on Tuesday that her group will propose to the government a revision of the constitution "to allow an immediate expulsion of all those who threaten public security", five days after the attack with a knife in a church in Nice.
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"We are making a constitutional proposal because, obviously, the French state has progressively deprived over the years of the capacity to expel those who are on its soil and who threaten public security", underlined the deputy Les Républicains du Doubs on the Public Senate channel.
"Of the only rejected asylum seekers, only 15% are actually returned to the border," gives the example of the Vice-President of the National Assembly, who calls for a hardening of "our fundamental law".
Brahim Issaoui, the alleged perpetrator of the fatal knife attack on Thursday in the basilica in Nice, is a 21-year-old Tunisian who arrived in Europe illegally from the Italian island of Lampedusa on September 20.
He allegedly landed on the mainland, in Bari, in southern Italy, on October 9, and only arrived in France two days before the attack in which he killed three people, according to a source close to investigation.
A revision of the constitution was also formulated by Christian Estrosi, LR mayor of Nice, the day after the attack.
"We must change the Constitution" to "wage war", he declared.
Asked about the words of the mayor of Nice calling for “exonerating oneself from the laws of peace”, Annie Genevard replied that this modification of the Constitution would be “ultimately the application of what Christian Estrosi says with his words”.
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