Didier Migaud says he’s “resolutely against” the deletion proposal made by LFI | EUROtoday

While the announcement of the tabling of a invoice from La France insoumise (LFI) aimed toward eradicating from the penal code the offense of apologizing for terrorism sparked a full of life political controversy through the weekend, the Minister of Justice , Didier Migaud, stated to himself “extremely shocked” And “resolutely against”Monday November 25.

“I don’t understand how we can let our guard down in the face of the threat of terrorism, which is very present today”declared the Keeper of the Seals on the France 2 set. Before persevering with: “It is despicable, it must be fought with the greatest force (…). Freedom of expression has never allowed everything, there are limits to this freedom of expression. »

“From the moment the apology makes it possible to justify and excuse, to find mitigating circumstances for a terrorist act, it is unacceptable”declared Mr. Migaud, affirming that this could “to be fought with the greatest force”.

Strong criticism and distancing from the PS

The textual content, tabled by the deputy of the North Ugo Bernalicis and his colleagues from the LFI group, needs to get rid of this offense, contemplating that on this matter ample “the law of July 29, 1881 dealing with facts relating to the offenses of apology for crime, apology for war crime, apology for crime against humanity”. “Which democracy can still retain its name when anti-terrorism methods are used to repress political activists, community activists, journalists, or even trade unionists”we will learn within the explanatory memorandum.

The offense of advocating terrorism was faraway from the 1881 regulation to be included within the penal code in 2014. La France insoumise needs ” to put back “ this crime “in the right place” within the regulation by eradicating it from the penal code, argued Sunday the top of the LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot.

The condemnations of this invoice have been added up on Saturday, among the many Macronists and on the appropriate. The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, judged on Sunday “unspeakable” the LFI proposal, believing that the left ought to “dissociate” of the motion led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

The first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, for his half, criticized the invoice from his accomplice within the New Popular Front, believing that it was “imperative to protect public freedoms, but also to protect the French from fanaticism and calls for violence and hatred”. “Socialists? I understood that they would object”argued Didier Migaud on Monday, when he was questioned about their place.

To clarify the LFI proposal, Mr. Bernalicis cites the case of Jean-Paul Delescaut, common secretary of the departmental union of the CGT du Nord, sentenced to at least one yr in jail suspended at first occasion – he appealed – for “apology of terrorism” following feedback made in a leaflet supporting the Palestinians. “The horrors of the illegal occupation have piled up. Since Saturday [7 octobre 2023, date de l’attaque du Hamas en Israël]they receive the responses they provoked”might we learn within the leaflet.

The LFI deputy additionally mentions his group president, Mathilde Panot, and the “rebellious” MEP Rima Hassan, who have been heard in April by the Parisian judicial police as a part of investigations for “apology of terrorism”. M^me Panot was questioned relating to the assertion printed by her group on October 7, 2023, during which the Hamas assault in Israel was described as “an armed offensive by Palestinian forces”in a “context of intensification of the Israeli occupation policy” within the Palestinian territories.