While 133,000 people, according to the authorities, demonstrated on Saturday against the "global security" law, the government is seeking to reduce the pressure, and this before the text arrives in the Senate in early 2021. But the equation promises to be complex . 

Opponents of the text responded on Saturday.

In total, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior, 133,000 people demonstrated in the streets of France to protest against the "global security" law and its controversial article 24 aimed at sanctioning the "malicious" dissemination of police images. .

While the left demands the withdrawal of the text, and the government must also face the controversy surrounding the beating of producer Michel Zecler by police officers, the executive is trying to get out of this bad patch. 

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"A text overtaken by the context".

This is why this walker predicts "certain death" in article 24. But the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin does not intend to back down, because to renounce would make him lose the support of the right, which would accuse the executive to let go of the police, and this while on Saturday, the police were assaulted by some demonstrators who came to "break the cop".

"Reconciling police protection and freedom to inform"

The executive must therefore find a way out to "reconcile police protection and freedom to inform", says Matignon, even if a close friend of Emmanuel Macron sees the demonstration as a bad trial.

"A month ago, he was attacked from everywhere because he repeated that in France, he would always defend the freedom of the press", said the latter.

This does not prevent Macronie from phosphorizing to bring down the pressure.

Some therefore suggest taking inspiration from the text against separatism, which includes a similar provision, amending the penal code and not the 1881 law on freedom of the press.

One thing is certain: the government wants to find a calming solution, without waiting for the text to arrive in the Senate in early 2021. Even if it is only there that it can officially be rewritten.