Wednesday, July 20, 2016

State of Emergency: The Assembly vote overwhelmingly to extend for six months – L’Express

A marathon debate about seven and a half hours in a tense atmosphere. The National Assembly adopted overwhelmingly, early Wednesday morning, the bill extending the post-emergency state attacks.

Shortly before 5:00, MEPs adopted, by 489 votes against 26, with 4 abstentions, the fourth draft law extension, in a much trimmed semicircle than usual. The protesters, almost all left (Left Front, environmentalists and slingers PS), are at the same low water level than in recent times.

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Originally scheduled for three months in the government project arising from François Hollande advertisements after the attack of Nice truck 14 July this extension since the attacks of 13 November has been extended to six months. A desired option by a party of the right and when the Head of State said he was open.



Search of baggage and vehicles

The Senate will debate at 17:00 of the extension until the end of January of this exceptional regime, in force since the attacks on 13 November.

Apart from the additional time for this special regime, government and majority have acceded to some opposition demands at this stage. Thus, the Assembly voted the possibility of searching luggage and vehicles, without instruction of the prosecutor, under the state of emergency. The bill also restores the administrative searches suspended in May, and provides for the seizure and exploitation of computer data and cell phones.

MEPs also deleted on terrorism, any penalties reducing automaticity, which was a proposal of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the attacks of 2015.

in addition, they have strengthened parliamentary oversight of the implementation of the state of emergency, providing a rise, in real time, actions taken under this regime. IDUs were also elected to vote the creation of a non-permanent commission for monitoring the state of emergency, composed of seven deputies and seven senators.



“The populist drift prevail all who will give up there”

If it is overall “happiness” of holding the debate, the chief of line of socialist deputies Bruno Le Roux has deplored a “shocking formula” Laurent Wauquiez (LR). Where “you invoke personal freedoms terrorists, we say there is no freedom for the enemies of the Republic”, said the number two party LR, under boos left.

Bruno Le Roux has also found “shocking” that some, right, can “leave to think that we can find strength for the Republic denying our commitments to our fundamental texts, laws and the human rights Declaration”. And this close to François Hollande to consider that “the populist drift prevail all who will give in it.”

On behalf of the LR Group, Guillaume Larrivé posted an “obsession with accountability and efficiency,” explaining that the response to the attack from the Promenade des Anglais “obviously can not be lifted state of emergency “but judging that” the legal rules should not be an excuse for inaction. ” Besides the “trial of intent”, he criticized the majority left to lock up “in a routine comfort while we proposed advanced” to harden the anti-terrorism legislation.

For the IDU, the extension of the state of emergency, “the benefit of the doubt”, is mainly a “symbol” and it will “more to win this war,” summarized Francis Rochebloine.

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