Already more than 70,000 signatures as of March 27.
Four days after its publication on a dedicated platform of the National Assembly by a certain Yann Millérioux, Thursday, March 23, a petition calls for the
"dissolution of the BRAV-M"
,
the brigade for the repression of motorized violent action in Paris.
The citizen platform was created in October 2020.
In it, its author denounces an “
action
” which “
participates [in] the increase in tensions, including against the police
”
.
“The country is suffocating with testimonies of violent and brutal abuses committed by these motorized brigades against demonstrators who are trying to voice their opposition to a project of social regression,” explains the author
.
"Let's stop the massacre"
“His mode of intervention evokes the memory of the voltigeurs, duos of police mounted on a motorcycle to disperse the demonstrators, a brigade dissolved in 1986 after the assassination of
Malik Oussekine
, beaten by three voltigeurs on the sidelines of student protests”,
he also justifies.
"
Let's stop the massacre
"
,
concludes the author of the petition in his text.
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This is supported in particular by deputies from La France insoumise (LFI), such as Ugo Bernalicis.
Already on Wednesday March 22, he had sent – with Thomas Portes and Antoine Léaument, two other LFI deputies – a letter to the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin to request the “provisional dismantling of the BRAV
-M”
.
However, the path of this petition is still long.
If
"any adult person, of French nationality or regularly residing in France, can file or sign a petition on the platform of petitions of the National Assembly"
, it must reach 100,000 signatures to be put online on the site of the National Assembly for “
more visibility
”
.
From then on, petitions only have one year to
“gather more signatures”
.
Otherwise, the petition remains only visible on the dedicated platform.
As soon as it is posted on the dedicated platform – and regardless of its number of signatures – the petition is assigned to one of the eight standing committees of the National Assembly “
depending on the theme it addresses
”.
For the petition on the BRAV-M, “
it falls within the competence of the law commission
”
,
explain to Le
Figaro
the services of the National Assembly.
The committee - made up proportionally of members of the different parliamentary groups - appoints a rapporteur then chooses, by a vote, to deal with the petition or to classify it.
The text is therefore not necessarily debated in committee.
In the event that the petition is examined, the committee only issues a “
report of its debates
”, where “
the first signatories
” can be associated.
A minister can also be heard in this context.
No law proposal emanates directly from the debates.
Similarly,
"no processing time is specified, it can take time
,
"
said Le
Figaro
Christophe Boutin, political scientist and professor of public law at the University of Caen-Normandy.
500,000 signatures before a potential debate in the Hemicycle
The petition can be debated in the Hemicycle in two cases.
Either if it reaches 500,000 signatures from at least 30 overseas departments or communities and the chairman of the designated standing committee or of a parliamentary group requests it.
Or if the petition has been closed by the committee that studied it.
A deputy can then ask the Conference of Presidents of the National Assembly that it still be examined.
This request must be made within eight days of filing the petition.
In either of these cases, only the Conference of Presidents of the National Assembly decides in the end on the inclusion of the petition on the agenda.
In both cases,
“the deputies exchange directly on the petition itself.
At the end of the debates, there is no vote,
explains Christophe Boutin.
It is only informative
”
.
Nevertheless, "
if the parliamentary discussion shows that there is a problem, one can imagine that a bill is subsequently tabled by deputies
"
,
adds the specialist.
The bill would then give rise to a classic vote in the National Assembly.
But “
no petition has ever reached 500,000 signatories
”
,
specifies the National Assembly.
Investigations opened against BRAV-M police officers
Regularly under fire from critics, the BRAV-M was created in March 2019 by the former Paris police chief Didier Lallement during the protest movement against "yellow vests".
Its purpose was to increase the mobility of law enforcement.
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The IGPN, the police force, was notably seized this Friday by the current prefect of police of Paris Laurent Nuñez, after the revelation by
Le Monde
and
Loopsider
of insulting remarks that the BRAV-M police officers would have made towards demonstrators during arrests.
“
I am shocked, these remarks are serious and ethically pose very serious problems
”, condemned the Paris police chief in the program C à vous on France 5.
Two other judicial investigations were opened this week and entrusted to the IGPN following two complaints against BRAV-M police officers.
On Franceinfo this Saturday, Laurent Nuñez nevertheless assured that a dissolution of this unit was not envisaged.
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