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The Senate examines criminal irresponsibility

2021-05-25T08:11:54.977Z


After the strong emotion aroused by the Halimi affair, a bill is discussed Tuesday. Attempt the impossible. Reconcile the taboo of judging madmen and the totem pole of appeasing the families of the victims. Tuesday begins in the Senate the parliamentary discussion of the bill of Senators Nathalie Goulet (UDI) and Jean Sol (LR), which they have been carrying for more than a year now. While the excitement of the Halimi affair has not subsided, the legislator is moving, in disperse


Attempt the impossible.

Reconcile the taboo of judging madmen and the totem pole of appeasing the families of the victims.

Tuesday begins in the Senate the parliamentary discussion of the bill of Senators Nathalie Goulet (UDI) and Jean Sol (LR), which they have been carrying for more than a year now.

While the excitement of the Halimi affair has not subsided, the legislator is moving, in dispersed order, towards a difficult reform: to meet the expectations of society, which does not understand that a man should not be tried for a crime, on the grounds that he was under the influence of narcotics which had abolished his discernment.

At the same time, the Chancellery is still refining its text for the end of the month, while the National Assembly is completing its “flash” information mission on the subject.

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The Senate bill, as it was conceived a year ago, has been completely changed by the law committee.

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We convinced ourselves that creating an exception to article 122-1 on criminal irresponsibility would not work

," explains

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Source: lefigaro

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