Global Security Law: Castex establishes a commission for "a new writing" of article 24

The Prime Minister, Jean Castex, announced this Thursday evening that he was going to set up "an independent commission responsible for proposing a new writing of article 24" of the proposed comprehensive security law, indicates Matignon.

The contentious article, voted on at first reading by the National Assembly and which must be submitted to the Senate, provides for penalizing the malicious dissemination of the image of police and gendarmes.

He is all the more criticized by the oppositions as several alleged cases of police violence have raised emotion in the country in recent days.

"Usefully feed the examination of the bill"

The commission, created on the proposal of the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin and which will see at its head the president of the National Consultative Commission of Human Rights (CNCDH), Jean-Marc Burguburu, must return its work "for the end of the month of December ”.

The objective is to "usefully feed the examination of the draft law on comprehensive security in January in the Senate while respecting the prerogatives of national representation", indicated the services of the Prime Minister.

Jean Castex announced the creation of this commission after a meeting with a delegation of press editors 'unions and representatives of journalists' collectives, including Reporters Without Borders, but boycotted by journalists 'unions and journalists' companies.