Marlène Schiappa, the Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Interior, announced on Sunday on Europe 1 the launch of a major consultation in order to finalize the bill against separatism in France.

Elected officials, sociologists or even representatives of religions will be questioned, with the objective of evoking all separatism.

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A major consultation to finalize the bill against separatism in France will be launched this week.

Marlène Schiappa, the Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Interior, in charge of Citizenship, announced it on Sunday morning on Europe 1. Elected officials, mayors, intellectuals, sociologists, philosophers or even representatives of religions will participate.

Marlène Schiappa and Gérald Darmanin want to consult and coordinate, as the government's method requires for sensitive issues.

White supremacism targeted

It is no longer a question of speaking only of separatism, implying Islamist separatism, but of separatism.

"We also want to fight, for example, against white supremacism. Several attacks, I am thinking in particular of the one in Christchurch, have taken place. In France, an attack has been foiled. These are small radical extremist groups who want to organize themselves against the Republic, "repeated Marlène Schiappa on Sunday morning.

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For Jérémie Peltier, director of studies at the Jean-Jaurès Foundation, we must question ourselves more broadly about "cultural liberalism".

"For example, when we conduct surveys and compare what young people of Muslim faith think and what young people of all faiths think, there are real gaps in France in the relationship to homosexuality, in the relation to the place of women in society. There, it is not a legislative fight but it is a cultural fight. It thus passes in particular by the school and by the reinforcement of a republican discourse, in particular at the top of the state, "he explains on Europe 1.

The presentation of the text planned for this fall

This consultation should not, however, delay the presentation of the text, still scheduled for this autumn, before arriving at the Assembly at the beginning of next year.

There will then still be time to add the measures resulting from this "major consultation".

This is the objective, we assure the executive side.