"Global security": Bardella (RN) welcomes the text but the judge "derisory" - France 24

Paris (AFP)

The controversial proposed law "Global security", which provides in particular to regulate the dissemination of the image of police and gendarmes, is "a good measure", but it is "derisory", said Monday the number two of the National Assembly Jordan Bardella.

"This is a good thing, a good measure, but it is derisory" in the face of "the feeling of impunity for all those who, on a daily basis, attack the police," said the deputy. president of the RN on LCI on the eve of the start of the examination of the text in the National Assembly.

"If there is not behind a much firmer, much more effective penal policy, we will not get out of it", judged the MEP, proposing in particular the doubling of sentences for "attacks" and " contempt "to the police, or the installation of" a magistrate in each police station "to" execute sentences much more quickly ".

The president of RN Marine Le Pen had estimated Sunday on BFMTV about the same bill that "anything that can help protect our police officers is a good thing", noting that the ban on broadcasting images "does than on images used to attack physical or mental integrity ".

However, she did not say whether she would vote in favor of the text, which includes measures that go "in the right direction" and others that go "in the wrong direction", pinning the "philosophy of En Marche" who, "in all circumstances, considers that, in order to be able to fight against a problem, it is necessary to monitor or censor the entirety of the French people".

Presented by the majority party and its ally Agir, the text provides for several security measures with, in its article 24, the penalization, by one year in prison and 45,000 euros fine, of the dissemination of "the image of the face or all other element of identification "of a police officer or a gendarme in intervention when this one aims to attack" his physical or psychic integrity ".

Representatives of journalists, defenders of civil liberties and the left are against this article.

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has pleaded in recent days for a toughening of the text, wishing that the faces of the police and gendarmes are "blurred" in the event of the dissemination of images on the Internet "in a wild way".

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