"When one is Keeper of the Seals one does not have the right to be clumsy with the law", underlined Thursday the leader of the deputies LR Damien Abad by denouncing the remarks of Nicole Belloubet on the criticism of the religions which aroused an outcry.
She pleaded awkwardness
The Minister of Justice pleaded the awkwardness and assured not to question "the right to criticize religion", after having assimilated the criticism of religions on Wednesday morning to "an attack on freedom" in connection with the Mila affair, named after this teenager from Isère who dropped out of school after being threatened with death on social networks because of comments hostile to Islam.
“In a democracy, the threat of death is unacceptable (…). The insult to religion is obviously an attack on freedom of conscience, it is serious, but it has nothing to do with the threat (of death, note), "the minister said on Europe 1.
He pleads for the lifting of anonymity on social networks
"This leaves open the idea that there would be a crime of blasphemy in France, which is completely false: we have the right to criticize a religion, and fortunately, it is called freedom of expression", reacted Damien Abad on France Inter Thursday. According to him, the words of the minister, even if she came back on them later, "above all show an ulterior motive with a rather dangerous and disturbing drift. This government today sometimes finds it difficult to put words into reality: on this subject, what is first to be condemned first, even if we had the very vulgar words of Ms. Mila, it is the death threats which it has incurred and which are unacceptable ”. In this regard, he pleaded for "lifting anonymity on social networks", because this anonymity "allows everything". "The digital law must not be the law of the jungle in a state of law".
The chairman of the LR group in the Senate Bruno Retailleau had criticized Wednesday "a complete reversal of meaning": "who threatens freedom of conscience? Mila or this political Islam that distorts our values? Let’s stop being naive and above all stop being weak! ", He launched in a tweet.
We are in a total reversal of meaning, which threatens freedom of conscience? Mila or this political Islam that distorts our values? Let’s stop being naive and above all stop being weak!
my reaction to Nicole Belloubet's words:
https://t.co/3lUunKBdn9
The deputy LR Eric Ciotti had for his part accused the government of "legitimizing the hatred of the Islamists against Mila", calling on Twitter "the Republic" to "stand up in the face of Islamism" and Emmanuel Macron to "get out of his torpor and of his silence ”on this subject.
The words of the president of #CFCM who considers that #Mila would have sought and deserved these death threats because she criticized Islam is a call to murder.
It is him that the Republic should not prosecute this young woman. https://t.co/7cq5dUsZ5Q
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