They were received by the Keeper of the Seals, the Minister of the Interior and the Prime Minister.
This Monday evening, representatives of the national police unions were able to express their anger following the latest attacks by police officers, two of whom have been killed in recent days in Rambouillet (Yvelines) and Avignon (Vaucluse).
According to a first press release from Matignon, the “government and union representatives are thus engaged in a consistent and concrete process, aimed at building strong responses”. The Prime Minister, Jean Castex, thus promised a hardening of the penalties against the people who would attack the police force.
"Mechanisms to ensure a firm and rapid response when officials are attacked" will thus be put in place according to the report of this crisis meeting.
The government has thus committed itself to "the strict limitation of the possibilities of reducing sentences, security sentences increased to thirty years for persons sentenced to life imprisonment for a crime committed against a police officer or a gendarme" or even work of “specific offenses more severely punished” during violence against the police.
An observatory of the penal response
Refusal to comply, "too often responsible for murders or serious injuries", will be punished "more severely".
These facts were until then punishable by one year's imprisonment and a fine of 7,500 euros.
Each public prosecutor's office will have to designate a referent responsible for improving the penal response when the assault concerns a police officer or a gendarme.
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The Keeper of the Seals will take a circular asking the prosecution for a strict firmness when the police are taken to task, in particular asking for the systematic deferral and a rapid judgment of the authors.
Another announcement that was particularly awaited by the law enforcement unions, the rapid establishment, "from July 1, 2021, of the observatory of the penal response, which will focus mainly on offenses committed against the security forces. interior ”. The police considered that the convictions of police violence of all kinds were too weak.