The National Assembly voted on Wednesday March 6, at first reading, a bill
“aimed at strengthening the criminal response against offenses of a racist, anti-Semitic or discriminatory nature”
.
Co-written by Renaissance deputies Mathieu Lefèvre and Caroline Yadan, the text will be examined by the Senate
“in the coming weeks”
, the authors hope, with a view to adoption by the end of 2024. The deputies RN and LFI abstained.
The discussion during the session was marked by a succession of heated debates and invectives, from one side of the hemicycle to the other - the climax of which was perhaps reached when Éric Dupond-Moretti, implicated by the RN deputy Julien Odoul, mimed the
“quenelle”
gesture while accusing Marine Le Pen’s party of being heir to the Waffen-SS.
But more than this great moment of parliamentary life, unlikely to mark history through the height and eloquence of the interventions, it is now the substance of the text which arouses attention...
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