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Believing that the two laws on “global security” and against separatism “reduce the freedoms of information, opinion, belief, education, association, demonstration and protest”, thirty-three personalities having voted for Emmanuel Macron in 2017 asked him to withdraw his projects, in a call published by Mediapart, this Sunday.

The appeal was signed by very diverse personalities from civil society, including lawyer William Bourdon, filmmaker Costa-Gavras, playwright and filmmaker Ariane Mnouchkine, political scientist Olivier Roy, deputy and mathematician Cédric Villani or the ex-footballer Lilian Thuram, president of the Education against Racism Foundation.

Laws that “roll back freedoms”

"Mr. President, we did not vote for that", say the signatories.

"Under the pretext of an illusory security in the face of world disorders, the government and the majority acting on your behalf are restricting our fundamental freedoms," they argue.

The “Global Security” and “Separatism” projects, which have become “Law consolidating republican principles”, are reducing these freedoms, according to the signatories.

"To allow this attack on our freedoms and our rights to take place, they write, is to install what the neo-fascist far right dreams of: an authoritarian state where the rule of law becomes a police state, criminalizing mobilisations. of society and certain popular demands ”.

Mobilization of journalists against the “Global Security” law

The “Global Security” law under discussion in parliament, and in particular its article 24 which intends to penalize the malicious dissemination of photographs of police officers during demonstrations, has aroused the anger of the editorial staff of the main French media.

The law intended to fight separatism and radical Islam intends to strengthen the rules of secularism and sanction information that puts the lives of others at risk, but it is strongly criticized in the public opinion of certain Muslim countries. as an Islamophobe.

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