On February 13, 2020, in Paris, the former President of the Republic, François Hollande, answered questions from the journalists of 20 Minutes in his office rue de Rivoli.

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O. Juszczak / 20 Minutes

François Hollande asked Saturday, for "honor", the withdrawal of the bill called "global security", contested again in the street on Saturday, recalling that he himself had had to withdraw a text on the forfeiture of the nationality.

"Today, if there is honor, it must be found in the withdrawal of the text and not in its maintenance", declared the former President of the Republic, in a video interview with the newspaper

La Montagne

broadcast on his Twitter account.

“There is more honor to withdrawing a text when it strikes the conscience and divides society than to maintain it, for a government or a President of the Republic, when the risk is to create incomprehension and violence ”, explains the predecessor of Emmanuel Macron.

The example of forfeiture

"The debate was badly started, its legislative translation was as inappropriate as it was inappropriate," said the former socialist president, about the text of the law and its flagship measure, contained in article 24, which plans to penalize the dissemination, with malicious intent, of the image of the police.

[Exclusive @lamontagne_fr] VIDEO.

François Hollande calls for the withdrawal of article 24 of the “Global Security” bill, considering that there is “honor to withdraw a text when it strikes the conscience and divides society”.



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François Hollande recalls in this regard having "also been confronted with this type of decision, in particular with the deprivation of nationality".

Three days after the attacks of November 13, 2015, François Hollande wanted to modify the Constitution to include the state of emergency regime and the extension of the deprivation of nationality to all dual nationals convicted of terrorism, even those born in France.

This last measure had sparked heated debates and the resignation of the then Minister of Justice, Christiane Taubira.

"When this question, which could appear as one of the answers to the terrorist crisis, divided, I preferred to withdraw the text," recalls François Hollande, who had renounced this measure on March 30, 2016.

Denouncing racism in the police

Saturday, tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in France against the text of the law "global security" but also against police violence and racism, after a succession of violent police arrests, revealed by videos.

François Hollande wished about them "that there are behaviors which change", to avoid that "the police is tainted by a certain number of behaviors".

“When there is unworthy behavior on the part of certain police officers, there are sanctions and there are legal proceedings.

But on the other hand when the police are themselves attacked (…) there is the need to ensure their support, ”he said.

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