Recognition for almost 50,000 people convicted. The Senate examines this Tuesday, May 6 for the second time, a bill that opens the way to the rehabilitation of people convicted of homosexuality in France, with the next disagreements on the assumption of associating this text in a compensation section.
The text of the socialist senator Hussein Bourgi, already adopted in the two cameras of Parliament, but in two different versions, has the intention of France having recognized its homosexual discrimination policy between 1942 and 1982.
Financial repair
Two articles of the Criminal Code of the time were directed: the first set a specific age of consent for homosexual relations and the other aggravated the repression of public indignation to modesty when it was committed by two people of the same sex.
According to Regis Schlagdenhaufen, professor at the School of High Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS (EHESS), they pronounced about 10,000 convictions, and around 40,000 for the reasons of public indignation with homosexual modesty, according to regis Schlagdenhauffen, professor of the Faculty of High Studies of Social Sciences (EHESS).
In addition to this recognition of the nation, the left in the Senate hopes to be reintroduced a financial repair mechanism for the benefit of excessively convicted persons, an allocation of 10,000 euros, accompanied by 150 euros per day of deprivation of liberty.
This measure that appeared in the initial text will be in the heart of the debates: it was approved by the National Assembly, but does not convince the law and the center, most in the Senate.
The upper chamber has thus eliminated in the committee of this system that judged “complex at the legal level”, according to the report of Senator Les Républicins Francis Szpiner, who feared in particular an “extremely dangerous precedent” that can open the way to multiple litigation.
Hussein Bourgi denounces the “symbolic violence” of a refusal of compensation: “Why do we refuse LGBT people what we are rightly granted to other victims of ill -treatment?” He asks.
France compensates in particular the Harkis, these French Muslims recruited as auxiliaries of the French army during the Algerian War (1954-1962), abandoned at the end of the conflict.
If the adoption of the text by the upper chamber is barely doubting, the disagreement that seems to persist between senators and deputies will force the National Assembly to obtain the bill in the second reading before any entry into the force of this text backed by the defense associations of LGBT+people.
Source: BFM TV
