The Senate adopted the extension of the state of emergency – Le Figaro

The Senate passed by 310 votes against 26 tonight, after hardened, the bill extending the state of emergency for a period of six months, until January 2017, that the National Assembly had voted a few hours earlier by an overwhelming majority. The Senate, where the majority is right, having modified the text of the Assembly, a joint committee (CMP) Assembly-Senate convened for tonight.

According to several parliamentary sources, an agreement should be concluded and the text developed by the CMP would be endorsed Thursday in a public meeting by the Assembly and the Senate. The bill will be finally adopted. In case of failure of the CMP, a new reading will be held in each of the assemblies before the Assembly, who constitutionally has the final say, proceeds – tomorrow or Friday – a final reading

L. Executive wished the text again authorizes administrative searches and allows the use of data found in any computer system or communication before in this context, as requested by the opposition Republicans. Also, if a search reveals the existence of another place frequented by the person, a resale right will be searched it in stride.

After the attack that left 84 dead Nice July 14, François Hollande has finally decided to extend for the fourth time the state of emergency. Offering an extension of three months, the Executive agreed to the request of Republicans do it for six months, until 26 January 2017.

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PS groups and radical left voted for, as well as that of the Republicans, with few exceptions, and IDUs who claimed a “hardening”. Republicans Monday had ten proposals in this direction. Only the Left Front group and some environmentalists MPs, as on previous occasions, voted against the project they consider inefficient at best, at worst a violation of fundamental rights. . The Union of Magistrates has once again denounced the regime of exception

“Yesterday reason has deserted the parliamentary scene: posturing and stigma absorbed debates in defiance of democratic principles and freedoms, “he wrote in a statement.

The advocate Jacques Toubon reiterated in a statement on its reserves this “state of permanent exception ‘, liable to weaken the rule of law and the exercise of fundamental freedoms.”

François Holland said today that “after such a tragedy, anger is legitimate (…) but it can escalate into hatred and suspicion” and that “the debate as it is necessary (…) but it can not achieve the necessary unity or damage the necessary cohesion. “

a recent report of a commission of inquiry on the fight against terrorism chaired by Georges Fenech (LR) and co-signed by the MP Sébastien Pietrasanta (PS) considers the contribution of the state of emergency “useful but limited in the context of combating terrorism.” If administrative searches have a destabilizing effect on the targeted people, it was “whittled down quickly,” he notes as well.


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