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The video killed Article 24
.
The controversial point of the Global Security Act on the dissemination of police images is going to be "rewritten".
For the moment it is suspended.
This has been decided by President Emmanuel Macron after gathering the main tenors of his majority at the Elysee, including Prime Minister Jean Castex and Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, who received a memorable anger.
Macron
"visibly very irritated"
, according to several of the assistants to the French media, has addressed the head of the Interior with these words: "The situation in which you have placed me could have been avoided."
Among those present, other ministers such as the heads of Justice and Culture and the leaders of the parliamentary groups that make up the presidential majority.
Attention,
the law is not withdrawn, not even the article
.
It is one thing to disavow the minister who wrote the famous 24 himself and another to retreat.
The law has already been approved in first reading by the Assembly with
three times as many yes's than no's
.
It would have given a feeling of weakness to withdraw the law or even Article 24 after a day of demonstrations that brought together 130,000 people against the law ...
... And against police excesses.
A mobilization that
happened in a minority week to open all the newscasts
due to the emotion caused by the broadcast of the video in which three policemen beat up a music producer who was arrested for going out without a mask.
So
Article 24 is "suspended"
.
Which is still a rhetorical figure because it was not energetic.
After the approval of the bill by the Assembly, it
must be debated and voted in the Senate
, in the first quarter of 2021. And then, return to the lower house.
In that process, it will be amended,
"completely rewritten
.
"
However, the fire has been so serious that analysts
do not rule out including the new rewriting in another legal text
in preparation, such as the law against separatism, which is actually directed against Islamist groups.
Controversy in France for a violent police attack on a black man.
If the way to remove the leg is curious, the staging is still peculiar.
The announcement was made by the head of the La República en Marcha group, Christophe Castaner.
That is,
Darmanin's predecessor in the Interior
, who was replaced in the summer government crisis.
Castaner has defended the law, which he voted, and
has affirmed that Article 24 "would not have prevented the broadcast of the video
.
"
It is about "clarifying the misunderstandings" that it has caused.
Sticking to the script of the majority, he has affirmed that "the reduction of press freedom can never be tolerated."
He was escorted by the heads of two centrist groups, Modem and Agir, Patrick Mignola and Olivier Becht, visibly uncomfortable with
a law that many describe as "liberticidal
.
"
Actually, the 24th seeks to
toughen the targeting of members of the forces of order on social networks by radical or criminal groups
.
Darmanin's crudeness and the prime minister's lack of parliamentary experience have created the mess.
It remains to be known the fate of the Interior Minister, signed by Macron to establish his popularity among right-wing voters, key to his re-election.
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