The orientation and programming law of the Ministry of the Interior, which provides for an additional 15 billion euros over five years, is only disputed left, where a “security escape” is denounced.
by Antoine Albertini
Fifteen billion euros additional over five years for police and gendarmes. By putting the same upright table on the table, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, has not only attached the almost unwavering support of the police unions, particularly sensitive to the language of figures. He also secured the vote of his orientation and programming law of the Ministry of the Interior (LOPMI), whose National Assembly begins the exam Monday, November 14.
This operation of neutralization of oppositions by the force of the budgetary argument is coupled with a tactical subtlety: the text was tightened around 16 articles, instead of the 32 deposited on the office of the National Assembly in the month from March, before the law examination was postponed due to presidential election. Stripped of most of the immigration provisions, it thus offers less consideration, even if its provisions are the subject of nearly 1,200 amendments to deputies, because they engage for years the substance of the Security question: generalization of delicual lump sum fines, which allow to sanction crimes without legal proceedings, “increased” equipment from the police, creation of 200 gendarmerie brigades, 11 additional mobile forces, increase in survey capacities in matters Digital …
But while the police institution is going through yet another crisis against the backdrop of a sling against the reform of the judicial police (PJ) and increase in the number of suicides, while the upcoming issues – Olympic and paralympic games of 2024, Increase in the Cyber threat – require to modernize the means of a regalian administration by nature, which would take the risk of voting against a law as richly endowed?
Or almost, as illustrated by his examination at first reading before the Senate, before an adoption, on October 18, in the form of a quasi-past: 307 votes for, 27 against. Even the socialist senators voted in favor of the “Darmanin law”, without trying to conceal the springs of their motivation: “the security request expressed by our fellow citizens (…) convinced us to vote in favor of this text and the means Additional that he allocates to our police forces, “said the socialist Jérôme Durain (Saône-et-Loire).
” A real inaccuracies forest “
Such a position did not fail to surprise, not to say more, their colleagues from the National Assembly. “It is a law very little close to the concrete concerns of our fellow citizens,” said the socialist deputy of North Roger Vicot, judging that this text “says nothing about the police and the population, of the role of elected officials, with a Wave from the local police, a real forest of inaccuracies “. At the Palais-Bourbon, the socialists should not vote against the Lopmi. “We are rather heading towards an abstention,” admits one of them, specifying that this position would be the object of a “very argued” explanation.
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