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Dead for refusing to comply: LFI deputies call for a commission of inquiry

2023-01-12T19:08:32.171Z


The parliamentarians consider that the 2017 law on the use of service weapons by the police should be evaluated.


LFI deputies pleaded Thursday, January 12 for a parliamentary commission of inquiry into "

the conditions of intervention

" of the police, after 13 deaths that occurred in 2022 after refusals to comply.

The police kill

” and “

the scale is unprecedented in Europe

”, estimated Éric Coquerel, elected official of Seine-Saint-Denis, during a press conference.

His colleague Ugo Bernalicis deplored a "

overbidding

" of the government which passed a series of laws "

aggravating the penalties

" for refusal to comply, which "no

longer make sense

".

The 2017 law in question

According to these parliamentarians, it is necessary to "

review

" the techniques of intervention of the police, and for this to evaluate the law of February 2017 which modified the rules for the use of their service weapon by the police, under pressure from the unions after a attack with Molotov cocktails against four agents in the Paris suburbs four months earlier.

To create such a commission of inquiry, the Insoumis would need to gather a majority, because they have already used their annual “

right to draw

” on another subject.

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In 2021, around 27,700 refusals to comply were recorded by the police and gendarmes, an increase of nearly 50% in ten years, according to official figures.

At the same time, police fire on moving vehicles has increased.

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LFI's request came on the day when the RN group intends to defend in the hemicycle a bill for a "

presumption of self-defense for members of the police

", a "

license to kill

" in the eyes of the Rebellious.

Despite the support of the LRs, the text of the far-right elected officials has little chance of being adopted, and may not even have time to be examined.

Source: lefigaro

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