A bill aimed at "
perpetuating
" the measures contained in the anti-terrorism law of 2017 and the intelligence law of 2015 will be presented on Wednesday in the Council of Ministers, we learned on Saturday from a source close to the executive.
"
The will is to perpetuate the current mechanisms of the two laws within the same law
", the same source said.
The text, which will be filed less than a week after the fatal attack at the Rambouillet police station (Yvelines), has been in preparation for several weeks, it was pointed out.
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Gérard Collomb's law on internal security and the fight against terrorism (Silt) was adopted in October 2017 to take over from the state of emergency put in place after the November 2015 attacks. '' experimenting for three years in common law with measures to combat terrorism, highly contested by defenders of public freedoms, such as "
home visits
" - ex-administrative searches -, individual control measures (Micas), establishment of a security perimeter and the closure of places of worship.
These controversial measures were extended in December 2020 by Parliament until July 31, 2021, the deadline for the adoption of the new bill.
The intelligence law of 2015 also contained a review clause (committing the executive to re-examine the legislative provisions at the end of a period) concerning in particular the experimentation of the technique known as “
algorithm
”.
This technique makes it possible to analyze communications exchanged within an operator's network to detect threats.
The national intelligence coordinator Laurent Nuñez stressed Saturday on BFMTV "
the importance of this technique with increasingly isolated individuals whose only traces are digital traces
".
