AFP According ten thousand people went to Northern France, against the action of a confrontation between police and opposition demonstrator in Paris on Saturday against the ra or security bill for their rally.
Why it’s important: If signed into law, the bill would promote government oversight and ban the sharing of images of police officers, which critics say would undermine civil liberties, including the freedom to report police brutality.
- Critics say police this week came across a video of a black music producer being beaten during an arrest in Paris – the French president Condemn Emanuel Macron As “unacceptable” on Friday – AFP notes that the law would never have been passed if it had been passed.
- The law would criminalize the publication or broadcast of police images if the intention is to “harm them physically or mentally”.
Big picture: The protests in Paris, like elsewhere in France, were largely peaceful. But small groups of protesters in the capital pelted police with stones and firecrackers, Reuters reported. Authorities fired tear gas, stun grenades and water cannons at protesters.
Note: The lower house of the French parliament passed a security bill this week, which will now go to the Senate.
- Some legislators have indicated that, according to Le Figaro, the bill could be amended.
- According to the New York Times, Prime Minister Jean-Claude Texas said on Friday that “they will launch an independent commission to help reconsider the controversial provision on the transmission of images of police officers.”
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