The left voted against. But the Senate, mostly on the right, gave the green light on Tuesday at first reading to the controversial LREM bill providing for "security measures" for those convicted of terrorism at the end of their sentence.
The senators made several modifications to the text resulting from the Assembly, inspired by a senatorial bill submitted upstream on the same subject by the chairman of the Senate law committee Philippe Bas (Les Républicains).
Socialists want to seize the Constitutional Council
Deputies and senators will now try to agree on a common text, with a view to final adoption before the parliamentary recess.
The PS group has already announced that it would seize the Constitutional Council on a text which “runs counter to our fundamental principles and is not effective in ensuring our security”, according to Jean-Yves Leconte.
The text provides that the judicial authority may impose for five or ten years on persons convicted of terrorism, at the end of their sentence, the obligation to respond to the summons of the judge responsible for the enforcement of sentences, to establish his residence in a specific place, prohibitions on entering into contact and appearing in certain places, and also the obligation of pointing as well as, subject to the consent of the person, the wearing of the electronic bracelet.
"In no case a sentence after the sentence"
The text "creates a new security measure", indicated rapporteur LR Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio, stressing that it "does not aim to sanction, but to prevent recidivism".
"It does not constitute in any case a sentence after the sentence," she assured in the face of criticism from the left. The senators framed the measure by limiting it to people sentenced to heavy sentences, exceeding five years' imprisonment, the rapporteur referring to "a constitutional requirement".
On the other hand, the senators extended the initial duration of this measure from one to two years, a modification which caused debate in the hemicycle.
Justice
Terrorism: Judicial follow-up for those convicted of terrorism even after their sentence? A bill worries
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