The deputies limited Wednesday in committee the prolongation of controversial measures of the anti-terrorism law of 2017, known as "Silt", which will be on the menu of the Assembly from July 21.
Concretely, the prorogation bill examined by the Law Commission provided for an extended term of one year to December 31, 2021, which the deputies brought back to July 31, 2021, on the initiative of the rapporteur Didier Paris (LREM). He stressed that this would allow Parliament to take on the full review of these arrangements sooner.
Some are inspired by the law on the state of emergency, an exceptional regime under which France lived between the attacks of November 13, 2015 and the adoption of the Silt law in autumn 2017. This concerns in particular the ex-administrative searches, which have become since 2017 “home visits and foreclosures”, and house arrest, transformed into “individual measures of administrative control and surveillance” (Micas). The perimeters of protection and the closing of places of worship were also the subject of a revoyure clause before the Parliament, just like the experimentation of the technique known as "algorithm" as regards intelligence, it contained in the law known as " intelligence ”of July 2015.
Fierce protests
Controversial in 2017, after fierce protests from defenders of public freedoms, these measures had finally been temporarily introduced by Parliament for three years, with the promise of a new review in 2020 in order to vote or not their extension.
A Senate report last February found these measures effective and encouraged their prolongation, but the Covid-19 crisis then came to shake up the legislative calendar, preventing "the organization of a serene and complete debate", according to the government.
The extension will open a time when a new bill "will perpetuate these provisions but also supplement or modify these two laws, to take into account the necessary changes brought about by operational needs," warned the executive.
