For François Hollande, the initiative is “doubly reprehensible.” The former head of state expressed his opposition to the proposed law of La France Insoumise on Sunday, November 24, aimed at repealing the crime of glorifying terrorism.
“The LFI initiative offends the victims of terrorism who, personally, suffer painfully from any relaxation of the duty of vigilance and national cohesion,” estimated the socialist deputy from Corrèze in his account X.
In detail, the text proposed by LFI aims to eliminate the crime of advocating terrorism. The radical left group considers that the law of July 29, 1881, which deals with the facts relating to the crimes of apology for a crime, apology for a war crime or apology for a crime against humanity, is sufficient in this matter. .
Rebellious France wants to “put” this crime “in the right place” in the law by eliminating it from the penal code, Mathilde Panot, leader of the rebel deputies, said on BFMTV on Sunday.
Bernard Cazeneuve denounces the “abject cynicism” of LFI
The LFI proposal, highly criticized by the right and the Macronists, also made the socialists jump, especially because they were in power when the crime of glorifying terrorism was included in the penal code. The first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, for example, considered it “imperative to protect public freedoms but also to protect the French from fanaticism and calls for violence and hatred.”
“It was during my five-year term that the law of November 13, 2014 criminalized the crime of condolence for terrorist acts,” stressed François Hollande, quoted in an article in Le Parisien. “It does not call into question freedom of expression, as it explicitly refers to press rights and leaves the courts discretion.”
For the former President of the Republic, the LFI bill is “doubly reprehensible. It creates confusion to better exonerate from their responsibilities personalities who, with their comments, use the Palestinian cause for provocative and hateful purposes.”
“All this is abject cynicism,” former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told the newspaper.
Source: BFM TV
