"Global security" law: Darmanin will propose an amendment guaranteeing freedom of the press

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin will propose Thursday to introduce an amendment guaranteeing press freedom in the proposed "comprehensive security" law, his entourage told AFP.

This text is currently being examined in the Assembly and is causing controversy around the image of the police. 

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This amendment, which will be proposed during a meeting in the evening with the boss of LREM deputies Christophe Castaner around Prime Minister Jean Castex, will "clarify article 24", much criticized by opponents of the text, to ensure that " the freedom of the press is of course in no way threatened ", the same source added.

"Global security": unions and editorial staff denounce attacks on the freedom to inform.

 Journalists' unions (including the Society of Editors of Europe 1), many editorial staff and other organizations denounced in a joint text "attacks on the freedom to inform" committed by the police during the rally organized Tuesday in Paris against the proposed law "Global security".

They say they condemn "with firmness the violence and threats against journalists, committed by the police at the end of this peaceful gathering", and in particular the placement in police custody of a journalist from France 3 Paris -Ile de France and a photo reporter from the online media Taranis News.

The signatories include unions (SNJ, SNJ-CGT, CFDT Journalists, SGJ-FO), the Human Rights League, collectives such as Angry Reporters or Profession: freelance, and the companies of journalists of around thirty media including Le Monde, Liberation, Le Figaro, AFP, BFMTV, Le point, L'Humanité, France 3, France Inter, franceinfo, L'Obs, L'Express, RTL ...