The Minister of Justice, Didier Migaud, declared himself this Monday, November 25, “very shocked” and “decidedly against” the LFI bill aimed at eliminating the crime of glorifying terrorism from the Penal Code. “I don’t understand how we can let our guard down in the face of the terrorist threat that is very present today,” declared Didier Migaud on the set of France 2.
“It is despicable, we must fight it with the greatest force (…). Freedom of expression has never allowed everything, there are limits to this freedom of expression,” he continued about the text carried by the LFI deputy. of the North, Ugo Bernalicis, and his colleagues from France, rebellious.
“Since the apology allows us to justify and excuse, finding mitigating circumstances for a terrorist act is unacceptable,” the minister continued, stating that we must “fight it with the greatest force.”
The text proposed by LFI wants to eliminate the crime of apology of terrorism created by a 2014 law, considering that in this matter “the law of July 29, 1881 that deals with facts related to the crimes of apology of crime, apology of war crimes, to apologize for crimes against humanity.
A growing controversy
The crime of glorifying terrorism had been eliminated from the 1881 law to be included in the Penal Code in 2014. LFI wants to “return” this crime “to the right place” in the law by eliminating it from the Penal Code, argued this Sunday the patron of the LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot.
The first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, for his part, criticized the LFI law proposal, considering that it was “imperative to protect public freedoms but also to protect the French from fanaticism and calls to violence and hatred.”
Condemnations of this bill were added on Saturday among the Macronists and the right. The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, for his part, considered the LFI proposal “indescribable” this Sunday and considered that the left must “disconnect” from the LFI.
“The socialists? I understood that they would oppose it,” Didier Migaud responded this Monday, November 25, when asked about the group’s position.
Source: BFM TV
