Article 24 of the global security bill will finally be completely "rewritten", announced Christophe Castaner, president of the LREM group to the Assembly, this Monday during a press conference.
He met this afternoon with several other presidents of parliamentary groups and ministers around the Head of State.
This article, which planned to penalize the malicious dissemination of the image of the police, crystallized the tensions.
“This bill is the result of two years of work.
(...).
The misunderstandings aroused by article 24 make it necessary to take the time to discuss this once again with you.
This article has two objectives: to better protect the police.
(...) The other objective is to preserve without any reservation the freedom of the press, whether they are professionals or citizens who broadcast intervention images ", assured the former Minister of Interior.
“We now consider it necessary to clarify the device adopted at first reading.
We are going to propose a complete new writing of article 24. (...) Too many questions remain, ”he conceded in front of the cameras.
For several days, the Head of State has been trying to resolve a political crisis that has arisen between the government and the majority around the proposed comprehensive security law and its article 24.
"The president was very annoyed, even annoyed"
As revealed by Le Parisien this Monday, Emmanuel Macron received this afternoon the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, or even the presidents of the majority groups in the Assembly, Christophe Castaner (LREM), Patrick Mignola (MoDem), Olivier Becht (Agir), to mention among other things, the controversial text.
The president also expressed his anger during this lunch.
"The president was very annoyed, even irritated", confides a government source evoking "an icy and martial tone".
Voted at first reading in the National Assembly on Tuesday, it was struck by several cases of alleged police violence, precisely revealed by videos, which aroused emotion and suddenly multiplied the ranks of its opponents.
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130,000 people, according to the Ministry of the Interior, 500,000 according to the organizers, marched Saturday in a hundred cities of France against the text of the law "global security" and police violence, sometimes violent clashes punctuating certain demonstrations in particular in Paris.
