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Conflans attack: the legislative response of the executive is underway

2020-10-23T17:58:22.137Z


A week after the savage assassination of Samuel Paty, and after a crackdown in Islamist circles, the government is putting itself in order.


It is a cruel habit.

Each successful attack reveals "holes in the racket".

To tighten the rope after the barbarism of Conflans, there were first the words - "They will not pass", "Fear will change sides" - but the executive must also take action.

"Keep Islamists from sleeping" is the new slogan.

Since the beginning of the week, the police services have been mobilized in all directions.

Of the 123 targeted “home visits”, 56 have already been carried out.

Three of them ultimately resulted in legal proceedings.

The Pantin mosque (Seine-Saint-Denis) has been closed.

The Cheikh Yassine collective founded in 2004 by Abdelhakim Sefrioui, involved in the assassination of Samuel Paty, dissolved.

This is act 1 of the response.

But the Conflans attack also shed a blinding light on the role and weight of social networks as a vector of hatred and radicalization.

A specialized unit should be created at the Paris prosecutor's office to centralize prosecutions in this matter.

And the Pharos platform, which collects all the reports, should also be strengthened, as the Prime Minister confirmed this Friday when leaving the Defense Council.

No exact figures for the moment, but of the hundred additional staff promised to the various services for the monitoring of social networks, a part will be allocated to it.

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Conflans attack: sanctions against those who publish information threatening the lives of others

Objective, that Pharos operates 24 hours a day, which is not currently the case.

Abdoullhak Anzorov, Samuel Paty's assassin, however, appeared on the platform's radars.

But his case was not considered sufficiently alarming.

It must be said that online hate grows like weed.

Since the attack, 1,279 reports have been notified to Pharos and 300 have given rise to investigations.

According to the latest figures, 27 people have been arrested following these reports.

A separatism offense under study

Beyond that, the Defense Council on Friday also wanted to lay the foundations for an even tighter legislative response.

The executive wants in particular to strengthen the bill on separatism with new provisions.

Between five and ten new measures are under study.

The most advanced concerns first of all the penalization of “pressures exerted on public services”.

Clearly, it would be about having a legislative arsenal to prosecute those who threaten or seek to exert pressure on the agents, in particular the teachers, because they explain the values ​​of the Republic.

The creation of an offense of "online disclosure of personal information that could endanger the life of others" is also announced.

This device would concern all those whose name, address or any other personal information, would be thrown in the pasture on social networks.

With aggravating circumstance, when the victims (teachers or police officers for example) have a public service mission.

In the pipes, also, the creation of an offense of separatism.

It would be a question of characterizing behaviors that violate the principles of the Republic, such as freedom or equality.

Considered, examined, but not acted upon, the measure is still subject to expertise.

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The ambition of the executive?

Reach out to hate preachers before they arm the arm of lost soldiers like Anzorov.

Always tighten the mesh of the net in the middle of the incessant flow of messages, "posts", of exchanges, the scope of which, as we now know, can be tragic.

Source: leparis

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