Demonstrators, November 21, 2020 in Paris, against article 24 of the Global Security law.

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The Prime Minister, Jean Castex, announced on Thursday that he would set up "an independent commission responsible for proposing a new writing of article 24" of the proposed law "Global security", indicated Matignon.

The contentious article, voted on at first reading by the National Assembly and which must be submitted to the Senate, provides for penalizing the malicious dissemination of the image of police and gendarmes.

It is all the more criticized by the oppositions that a succession of alleged cases of police violence has raised the emotion in the country in recent days.

Jean-Marc Burguburu appointed as its head

The commission, created on the proposal of the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin and which will see at its head the president of the National Consultative Commission of Human Rights (CNCDH), Jean-Marc Burguburu, must deliver its work "by the end of the month of December ”.

The objective is to "usefully feed the examination of the draft law on comprehensive security in January in the Senate while respecting the prerogatives of national representation", indicated the services of the Prime Minister.

Jean Castex announced the creation of this commission after a meeting with a delegation of press publishers 'unions and representatives of journalists' collectives, including Reporters Without Borders, but boycotted by journalists 'unions and journalists' companies.

Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti, interviewed this Thursday on LCI on the beating of a music producer, documented by a video posted on social networks, acknowledged that if there had been no images , "We would not have known" this case.

“You have to film,” he said.

“This is the reason why journalists have to do their job.

However, images of police officers cannot be broadcast with the intention of harming them.

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