The “presumption of self-defense” for legislation enforcement fails to be adopted within the National Assembly, regardless of authorities help | EUROtoday

This is a textbook case of French “filibustering” – this method of parliamentary obstruction by which members of the American Senate use all artifices to delay the adoption of a legislation – within the French fashion: Thursday January 22, in an explosive ambiance, the left mobilized round forty reminders of the principles, round fifteen suspensions of periods and dozens of sub-amendments to lastly defeat the very controversial invoice “aiming to recognize a presumption of self-defense for the police, in the exercise of their functions”. Supported by the deputy (Les Républicains, LR; Territoire de Belfort) Ian Boucard as a part of a parliamentary area of interest of LR, the proposal, because of not having been the topic of a vote earlier than the fateful hour of midnight, couldn’t be adopted.

For the federal government, which had given its help to the invoice at the price of a – timid – rewriting, the snub is scathing, significantly for the Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, in favor of the textual content, and who had spared no effort to help it earlier than the nationwide illustration. As early as January 8, throughout a debate organized by La France insoumise on the National Assembly, Laurent Nuñez took up an argument willingly developed by the police union Alliance, believing that the textual content constituted a “important means of protecting our police officers and gendarmes, who can sometimes find themselves in police custody after police or gendarmerie action”.

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