The new text maintains the controversial use of encirclement techniques and weapons of “intermediate force” as the defense ball launcher.
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The Ministry of the Interior released, Thursday, December 16, with a few weeks behind the schedule, its new version of the National Payment Scheme, which aims to frame the action of the police and the gendarmerie on the occasion of events. A new “grind” and not a new “version”, insists the press release issued by the services of the Minister of Place Beauvau, Gérald Darmanin, both the text regains essentially the provisions initially planned.
In June, the Council of State had canceled four of them, three of whom hindered the work of journalists in the event of manifestation. They were abandoned during the rewriting of the text, which also provides for a “modernization” of summons during the dispersions of protesters. The police will now have to use the formula: “We will make use of the strength, leave the places immediately”.
However, there are no substantial modification, on the other hand, temper the use of intermediate force weapons, such as deafening grenades or the defense launcher (LBD), whose use had been denounced by several associations and the protesters. Finally, the so-called nasse technique, consisting in encircling the protesters and retaining them in a given perimeter, is also maintained. It can be used “In order to avoid the use of techniques that may have higher risk of violation” and the condition of “systematically spare a controlled output”.
“A doctrine Protective “
This new text – “A protective doctrine for protesters and firm with the perpetrators of violence”, according to the Ministry of the Interior – raised, from its publication, many critics. “The Minister of the Interior complies with the decision of the Council of State, where a structural reform of the order of the order was necessary. Instead of rethinking the management of demonstrations to go to strategies of dialogue and de-escalation (…) The authorities confirm a repressive approach, “said Anne-Sophie Simpere, responsible for advocacy” Freedoms “in Amnesty International France. In November, the defender of rights observed, for his part, that the action of the police remained “strongly marked by a confrontational prism” and a “punitive approach”.
Final adoption on Thursday of the Criminal Irresponsibility Act and Internal Security, also allows, from now on, the use of drones on the occasion of events. In May, the Constitutional Council had censored prior provisions, considering that the legislator had not assured “a balanced conciliation between the constitutional value objectives of the prevention of public policy breaches and the research of offenses. and the right to respect for private life “. The use of flying gear is now subject to stricter conditions, such as a motivated prefectural authorization, which can not exceed three months and will have to wear “on a reduced geographical perimeter needed”.