The Alliance police union and the LDH of Côte-d’Or have learned different lessons from the announcement of the rewriting of article 24 of the “global security” law. Article which stipulated that the malicious distribution of images showing police officers could be sanctioned.
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Article 24 of the “comprehensive security” law will be rewritten. “It is neither a withdrawal nor a suspension but a total rewriting of the text”, announced yesterday Christophe Castaner, president of the LREM group to the National Assembly.
After a week of opposition protests and the march of hundreds of thousands of people in France this weekend, the government decided to rewrite this article which aimed to penalize the malicious dissemination of images of police officers.
On the side of defenders and detractors of the law, we remain cautious after the statements of the former Minister of the Interior on the upcoming article. “We do not yet know what will contain”, say in substance Paul Garrigues of the League of Human Rights of Dijon and Cédric Bovrice, of the Alliance Police union. This is the only point on which the two men come together.
“Other things are problematic in this law such as the use of drones to monitor certain demonstrations”
“There are already laws to protect the police”, believes Paul Garrigues, hoping that article 24, and the comprehensive security law in its entirety, will be abandoned. “Other things are problematic in this law such as the use of drones to monitor certain demonstrations”, adds the activist.
Regarding article 24, he considers that it would have been a brake on the media coverage of certain police violence: “Obviously all the police officers do not slip but too much are covered by their hierarchy. The problem is political and systemic and does not concern just a few elements. It is because there are images that certain acts could be condemned”.
A new demonstration in the coming days?
The debate is badly posed according to the local branch of the police union Alliance Police which regrets that “the government is backing down under media pressure”. “Article 24 was not intended to prohibit the filming of police officers. There were safeguards to preserve press freedom. On the other hand, it was a very specific additional tool to limit the malicious dissemination of information. on the police “, argues Cédric Bovrice.
The police officer ensures that under certain videos, showing his colleagues, posted on social networks, Internet users disseminate personal information, even calls for murder or rape. So he hopes that “its rewriting will not empty article 24 of its substance”.
GLOBAL SECURITY LAW
When the narrow-minded ideologues @Defenseurdroits @amnesty @SMagistrature @RSF_fr howl wolf and denounce a future state of Police !!!
Police protection is not negotiable
Alliance calls on all parliamentarians to defend this law pic.twitter.com/uZrTiCmApa— ALLIANCE PN (@alliancepolice) November 9, 2020
A demonstration could take place in the coming days in Dijon, organized in particular by the LDH, to protest again against the comprehensive security law.
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