The National Assembly votes in favor of a legislation geared toward rehabilitating these convicted of homosexuality | EUROtoday

The National Assembly unanimously adopted, Thursday, December 18, a invoice geared toward rehabilitating individuals convicted of homosexuality in France. The textual content will now need to be the topic of a compromise between deputies and senators, who disagree specifically on the query of compensation.

“The story that brings us together today is the story of those whose only crime was to love”underlined the Minister Delegate in command of gender equality, Aurore Bergé. “Homophobia has been a policy. This responsibility cannot be evaded or diluted. It must be said fully. »

The text adopted Thursday intends to have France recognize its discriminatory policy against homosexual people between 1942 and 1982. It also plans to compensate those convicted with an allowance of 10,000 euros, accompanied by 150 euros per day of deprivation of liberty.

The authentic textual content restored

But at first and second studying, the Senate modified the interval lined to start out in 1945, contemplating that the Republic didn’t need to “apologize for the crimes of the Vichy regime”. He additionally eliminated the compensation part.

The Assembly due to this fact restored the textual content of socialist senator Hussein Bourgi in its preliminary model. A joint committee bringing collectively seven deputies and 7 senators, liable for discovering a compromise model, will likely be convened “as quickly as possible”declared Ms. Bergé within the hemicycle.

“Recognizing a harm requires repairing it, one does not go without the other, it is necessary from a symbolic point of view”argued to Agence France-Presse (AFP) the socialist deputy Hervé Saulignac, rapporteur of the textual content to the Assembly.

Regarding the interval lined, he assures that it’s ” logic “ to revive the begin to 1942 provided that the Republic “assumed and renewed” in 1945 the legislation which set a selected age of consent for gay relations (21 years towards 15 years for heterosexual relations).

The bill also aims to rehabilitate those who were convicted under another article of the penal code at the time which strengthened the repression of public outrage of modesty when committed by two people of the same sex.

Around 10,000 convictions had been handed down underneath the part which established a selected age of consent, and round 40,000 for public indecency. “homosexual”based on Régis Schlagdenhauffen, lecturer on the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences.

These had been primarily males who had been paying fines or receiving jail sentences. Many of those persons are already deceased and others are aged, which implies that only a few of them would request monetary compensation.

Other legal guidelines made it attainable to repress gay individuals in France with out homosexuality being criminally punishable as such.