The proposed law of MP Modem Erwan Balant, supported by the Government, was adopted Wednesday by the National Assembly.
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MEPs voted at first reading, Wednesday 1 December, a bill that creates a new offense of school harassment. This text, supported by the Government, was unanimously adopted by the votes cast, 69 votes. Five left deputies abstained.
“By proposing to legislate on such a question, the representatives of the nation send a message of great power,” said the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, for whom the fight against the School harassment “requires mobilization of the entire society”. Nearly one in ten students would be concerned by this scourge, amplified by social networks. A program to combat school harassment, baptized flagship and experienced by six academies over the past two years, is being deployed within national education.
This new offense is intended to completely complete the tools already available. It will be able to concern students like adults working in schools and academics, public or private. The text provides for sentences ranging from three years of imprisonment and € 45,000 for the fact that the facts will have caused a total labor incapacity of less than or equal to eight days, ten years of imprisonment and 150,000 euros of fine when ‘They will have led the victim to commit suicide or try to commit suicide.
“Criminal outbidding”
In the field, the associative actors were not applicants for such an offense. The Director of the Center for Resource and Systemic Studies Against School Intimidation (Resis), Jean-Pierre Bellon, or the founder of the Marion Association Hand Tensue, Nora Faze, thus judge the text too repressive: “No law penalizing Stopular students will have the slightest effect on the existence of “school-specific group effects, do they believe in a common text.
In the hemicycle, the creation of this new offense, while these acts can already be sanctioned today via moral harassment, has aroused debates. This bill participates in “a communication plan” and a “criminal outbidding”, thus estimated the member (France unsuitable, LFI, Seine-Saint-Denis) Sabine Rubin. “The repressive reflex vis-à-vis children is not the right track,” rebounded Elsa Faucillon (Communist Party, Hauts-de-Seine). The hon. Member fears an increased judicialization: “Parents will make a complaint before speaking to the head of establishment”, while “there is more educational”. Favorable to the text and to “break a taboo”, the member (Union of Democrats and Independent, UDI, Somme) Grégory Labille has no less deemed that “the planned sentences are totally disproportionate in comparison with the existing law.” / p>
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