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Jean-Eric Schoettl: "Will blasphemy be restored in the name of respect due to others?"

2021-05-03T17:21:50.538Z


FIGAROVOX / TRIBUNE - If to strike a conviction is to undermine the dignity of the people who share it, there is no longer any education or freedom of expression possible, worries the former secretary general of the Constitutional Council.


Jean-Éric Schoettl, Honorary State Councilor, is a former Secretary General of the Constitutional Council.

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The criminalization of blasphemy was abolished in France for the first time in 1791. It was abolished a second time, concomitantly with the proclamation of the freedom of the press in 1881, with the repeal of the offenses of contempt of " public and religious morals ”as well as“ religions recognized by the State ”.

It also seemed certain that the arsenal established since the Pleven law to combat incitement to hatred or discrimination (as well as insult and defamation) on the grounds of religion, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, etc.

protected people and not dogmas.

Thus, the Paris Court of Appeal ruled in 2008 that the cartoons of Muhammad published by

Charlie Hebdo

in 2006 did not constitute an insult to Muslims.

Will the alliance of a cabal of devotees of a new type and the exacerbated concern not to offend the sensitivity of the Other lead to the crime of blasphemy being dressed in new clothes?

The alliance of a cabal of devotees of a new type, on the one hand, and the exacerbated concern not to offend the sensibilities of

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Source: lefigaro

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