The text that the police called for will pass before the national representation.
Supported by the deputies (LREM) Alice Thouron and Jean-Michel Fauvergue and presented in line with their report on the "security continuum" submitted to the government two years ago, the bill called "global security" will be examined this Tuesday by the deputies.
The various provisions it incorporates should tighten the protection of police and gendarmes in the field.
Article 23 provides for a limitation on the benefit of sentence reduction measures for people who have been found guilty of offenses against the internal security forces, but also against firefighters and elected officials.
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This provision, punishable by a heavy penalty of up to one year in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros,
"comes at a time when, for almost two years, we have observed an increase in police violence in France",
criticizes Amnesty. International.
Filmed in the street by amateur videographers, the police are also victims of threats that are not virtual.
According to our information, a young peacekeeper was filmed on November 4 in Paris during a control, before the images were published on Twitter and Facebook with this injunction:
"Disclose his personal address and a good bullet in the head."
The Keeper of the Seals, for his part, promised the police unions the dissemination of a circular of strong criminal policy in terms of repression of attacks on law enforcement and firefighters, like the one published in September for elected officials.
An asymmetrical war of images
A real toolbox, the bill should also offer a more “offensive” use of the images collected by the pedestrian cameras carried by the police and the gendarmes: in the event of litigation or violence, the sequences could thus be subject to of a review within the framework of the "interests of the service" incriminated, but also used for media purposes on social networks to circumstantiate the legitimacy of the action of the forces and rebalance a war of images for the moment asymmetrical.
Drawing lessons from the terrorist episodes of recent years, the bill provides for the possibility for national police officers and soldiers of the national gendarmerie to keep their weapon out of service when entering an establishment open to the public.
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To lower tensions, the text finally recommends a “delictualisation” of the sale and acquisition of fireworks “mortars” as well as the use of pyrotechnic devices, which have become common in the panoply of gangs of thugs who have declared war on uniform wearers.