The bill passed at first reading by the National Assembly
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aimed at strengthening the criminal response against offenses of a racist, anti-Semitic or discriminatory nature
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may be surprising, insofar as it plans to extend the criminalization of what is commonly called hate speech in the private domain.
Its promoter seems surprised that we can oppose it: he maintains that this proposed law does not innovate in any way, does not change the characterization of offenses, and only updates a necessary repressive system, in a context marked by the renaissance of anti-Semitism, following October 7.
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But the reference to October 7 seems above all to serve as a pretext.
Because the real context is different.
For several years, several Western societies have wanted to put in place a legal system to track hate speech in the private domain.
The fight against hatred justifies everything, and laws are made to persecute those…
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