The Assembly approved this Thursday the possibility of confiscating the vehicles of the “urban rodeo practitioners”, even when they have not been used during the infraction, within the framework of the examination of the law of orientation and program of the Ministry of the Interior.
This tightening of the legislation, voted with 74 votes in favor and 0 against, was introduced by identical amendments from the Horizontes and Renacimiento groups, with the approval of the Government. The measure will allow “more severely punishing rodeo practitioners by adding the additional penalty of confiscation of one or more vehicles belonging to the convicted person, even in the event that the vehicles have not been used to commit the crime.”
According to the authors of the modifications, it is about being able to also sanction “the author of the roundup who does not own the machine”, the latter escaping “in the current state of the right to confiscate” a vehicle.
Enhanced penalties for perpetrators
The measure is added to a series of provisions introduced by the Senate, widely adopted on Thursday by the deputies (74 in favor against 5), which reinforce the penalties for the perpetrators of motorized rodeos or refusal to comply, but also for the perpetrators of violence. against elected officials, aligned with those anticipated for attacks against police.
The Assembly, for its part, rejected the RN amendments, which called for the inclusion in the law of a legal framework to authorize police officers to use “tactical contact”, a technique also called “shock absorber”, to attack the perpetrators of rodeos or refusal to comply.
A judgment proportionate to the risks
“The British method has paid off,” argued RN MP Michaël Taverne. “We have to send a message, whistle the end of the break,” he added, saying the instructions currently bar police from “going to arrest these offenders.”
“There is no note from the General Directorate of the National Police that prohibits arrests or prohibits prosecution, they are ‘fake news,'” Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin responded in the chamber.
“What the police are told,” he continued, is that a “persecution must be fairly proportional to the risk it represents” both for the police themselves and for the people who are on the road or on the sidewalks. “Stop repeating that there is a ban on prosecution, there is authorization to continue except when the police officers consider that at a certain moment they are endangering the lives of others,” said the minister.
After its approval by the Senate, the first reading of the law defended by Gérald Darmanin must continue in the Assembly at least until Friday.
Source: BFM TV
