A text discussed in the Assembly on Tuesday, and supported by the government, has attracted criticism from the left and human rights defenders, who denounce "a permit to kill".
A text discussed in the Assembly on Tuesday, and supported by the government, has attracted criticism from the left and human rights defenders, who denounce "a permit to kill".
On Tuesday, 7 July, Members of Parliament voted on a measure that would allow police and gendarmes to benefit from a derogatory penal regime, which has its origin in the far right and is now supported by the executive.
An Amnesty International official was arrested on Monday 6 July in Paris, on the sidelines of an action before an office of the Ministry of the Interior in Paris against the proposed LR law to establish the presumption of self-defence for police officers.