A political posture rather than a legal gesture. The riots and, in their wake, the controversies over police violence and the rising police revolt, revived the idea of a presumption of self-defense for the police. Stemming from the National Rally and Reconquest!, the proposal is however not very popular in the left-wing or apolitical judiciary, such as the Union syndicale de la magistrature.
The only discordant voice is that of Unité Magistrats, which defends a simple presumption "which would have the merit of changing the software of magistrates" as stated by its president, Béatrice Brugère. Thus, "the burden of proof would fall on prosecutors and victims who would have to show how the use of their weapon was illegal". The offending police officers would no longer be required to justify that they acted as they should in the course of their duties.
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Those who advocate such a legislative reform believe that the current political and social context will make it possible to achieve this.
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