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MPs have largely adopted on Tuesday 1^er April, a senatorial invoice for “Take France out of the trap of drug trafficking”after seven days of vigorous debates on this key textual content in authorities safety coverage.

The textual content was authorized by 436 votes in opposition to 75. The authorities coalition and the National Rally (RN) voted for, whereas the left was divided: the Socialist Party (PS) voted for, Insoumise France (LFI) in opposition to, whereas ecological and communist deputies have been principally abstained.

A joint joint committee should now meet, permitting senators and deputies to agree on a typical model of the textual content. Its closing adoption is scheduled for April 28 within the Senate and on the twenty ninth within the Assembly.

The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, welcomed the adoption of a textual content which in line with him “Will date”permitting ” Finally “ to the safety forces of “Fighting on equal arms against a scourge which is ravaging the whole country”because of the creation of a “Specialized judicial channel”of a “True inter-ministerial staff” and at “New means in terms of intelligence and (…) of investigation “.

Only remorse for Mr. Retailleau: the rejection by the deputies of a measure meant to pressure the encrypted messaging platforms (sign, WhatsApp, and so on.) to speak the correspondence of traffickers to investigators. But he doesn’t intend to present it up: “We will have to define respectful procedures obviously of our public freedoms at one point or another”he stated.

Measures restored in session

Adopted unanimously on February 4 within the Senate, the Senators’ invoice Etienne Blanc (Les Républicains) and Jérôme Durain (PS) aroused lengthy and passionate debates within the Assembly. If all of the teams have agreed on its goals within the face of a scourge that has largely overwhelmed metropolises, they’ve usually confronted the affect of the measures envisaged on public freedoms and the rights of the protection, and on their effectiveness.

Few are the provisions to be made consensus, such because the creation of an organized nationwide anti -crime parquet (Pnaco), on the coronary heart of the textual content, or the implementation of a extra engaging weight-reduction plan for “Repentis”. Introduced on the eve of the committee debate within the meeting, the creation of a brand new detention regime for giant traffickers has occupied lengthy hours of debate, earlier than being adopted in a model making an allowance for the opinion of the Council of State, requested by the Keeper of the Seals.

The deputies, furthermore, restored within the assembly – after having eliminated it in committee – the creation of “Backrest” Or “Distinct minutes” which can solely be accessible to investigators and magistrates, a measure deemed by legal legal professionals and the defending left for the rights of the protection.

Also restored within the session, because of the assist of the RN to the federal government coalition and in a hemicycle usually very sparse: the opportunity of extending as much as 100 and twenty o’clock in police custody “Mules”or that of activating related objects remotely to spy on suspects with out their information.

Other measures have divided the hemicycle earlier than being adopted, such because the attraction, within the context of an experiment, to algorithmic intelligence to detect threats linked to organized crime; the chance given to the prefects to pronounce “Prohibitions to appear” On the factors of deal for folks collaborating, or to shut retailers on easy suspicions of cash laundering; Or the generalization of videoconference for the looks of huge traffickers.

“Overbidding”

File chef of her group on the textual content, the communist deputy Elsa Faucillon regretted Tuesday a type of “Overbidding” within the debates, expressing his “Printing that the political and personal agendas of ministers have awarded the search for consensus”.

“Faced with a central block absent in committee, in session and in the debates, our adjustment proposals have unfortunately never been heard”has deplored the socialist Colette Capdevielle, pointing to measures that “Appear unconstitutional”particularly with regard to the brand new jail of isolation.

LFI deputies have already introduced their intention to grab the Constitutional Council.