Approved by deputies on Tuesday, the text provides for an additional 15 billion euros over five years.
MO12345lemonde with AFP
The National Assembly greatly approved, Tuesday, November 22, the programming and guidance bill of the Ministry of the Interior, which provides for an additional 15 billion euros over five years.
The text was adopted with the assistance of the deputies of the Republicans (LR) and the National Rally (RN), despite the opposition of a large part of the left (419 votes against 116, and 35 abstentions). The elected communists, environmentalists, and rebellious France (LFI) unanimously voted against, while the socialists abstained.
After the vote, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, praised a “historic” text giving “police, gendarmes, firefighters and prefecture agents” of “means to protect the French”. The bill had already been comfortably adopted in the Senate (307 votes for, 27 against). Deputies and senators will now try to agree on a common version of the text in mixed committee.
“We salute the increase in credits and the recruitment of the 8,500 positions in the police” on the five -year term, said before the solemn vote MP Ian Boucard (LR), repeating however that his group considered the bill as “insufficient”. The right-wing elected officials obtained the virtual delays, at 3,000, places in administrative detention centers for foreigners in an irregular situation.
“It is not enough to inject money,” said Jordan Guitton (RN), who considered that the text represented more “the ambition of communication of a minister”, even if his group would vote to “support the police”.
The left denounces “old recipes”
The “rebellious” deputies, communists and environmentalists, conversely criticized a vision opposite the “local police” they defend. In their viewfinder also, the extension of the number of crimes which may be subject to a delicacy flat-rate fine, inflicted by an agent outside a trial, for example for hindrance to road traffic.
“These are always the same old recipes from Nicolas Sarkozy that you have chosen to” pimp “(…): the quantity, the figure to the detriment of the time of investigations”, launched the Minister Sandra Regol.
Davy Rimane (communist group) castigated a text of “automatic justice, without human contact, which relegates empathy to the loss of time”, when the “rebellious” deputy Elisa Martin attacked the reform of The judicial police, which is not acted by this bill, but addressed in a roadmap annexed to the text. “This means a real risk of loss of independence since it will act under the authority of the prefect. (…) [This reform] can compromise surveys,” she warned.
cybercrime and online complaint
“It would be stupid not to recognize the advances contained in this text, and in particular the budgetary effort made,” said Socialist Roger Vicot, however, recalling an alert from the State Council on the “Budget not-security in the coming years”. Less hostile than the other deputies of the cloud, the parliamentarian has nevertheless denounced “the widening of the flat -rate fines of the intrusions in educational establishments and the blockages of the traffic paths, [which] asks a real democratic question with regard to the Right to demonstrate “.
Defending an “offensive abstention”, he, like the other left deputies, denounced the future reform of the judicial police as well as a lack of measures in the text in favor of the police-population link. With the increase in credits, eleven new units of mobile forces “specialized in rapid intervention” will be created; And, to ensure safety in rural areas, two hundred gendarmerie brigades.
To combat cybercrime, constantly increasing, the text will allow the seizures of digital assets such as cryptocurrencies. The bill also opens up the possibility for certain offenses to file complaint in videoconference, and hardens the repression of sexist and sexual outrages. It also presents a roadmap from the ministry (on digital, training, the place of Frontex in national borders control, etc.), without legislative value.