2023-07-13 00:18:46
The president of the right-wing Les Republicains party in the National Assembly, July 11, 2023. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP
To the chagrin of the left, the National Assembly gave the green light, Wednesday evening July 12, to the request of the right-wing party Les Republicains to build 3,000 additional prison places by 2027.
The current program of « 15 000 » creation of places by 2027, launched in 2018, has been delayed and is “already undersized” points out a recent parliamentary report.
Mr. Ciotti had conditioned his favorable vote on the entire justice programming bill to the validation of such an increase in the number of places in detention, to reach a park of 78,000 places in 2027.
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Currently, ” Sanctions “ imprisonment “are not applied” lack of places, so “the only solution is to build”, he argued in the hemicycle. The presidential majority responded “chick”emphasizing the issue of ” dignity “while more than 2,300 inmates sleep on a mattress on the floor due to prison overcrowding.
But these Renaissance, MoDem and Horizons deputies made it clear that these 3,000 additional places would be made “subject to the issuance by the local authorities of the necessary planning permissions”.
“Protect society from dangerous individuals”
The Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, launched on this subject “a solemn, republican appeal, so that locally the attempts to obstruct it stop” construction of detention centers. It is always “prison yes, but elsewhere”he pointed.
Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti at the National Assembly on July 11, 2023. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP
Similarly, regarding closed educational centers, which LR would like to double by 2027: “too many elected officials are still reluctant to [les] to welcome “, said Mr. Dupond-Moretti. More generally, the Minister defended his “criminal policy of firmness without demagoguery”.
Mr. Ciotti and Olivier Marleix, leader of the LR deputies, had written earlier on Wednesday to the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, to demand a policy not “guided by a management of scarcity but by the need to protect society from dangerous individuals and to enforce the rule of law”after the recent urban riots, according to this letter consulted by Agence France-Presse.
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The left strongly criticized these 3,000 additional prison places: “The obsession with everything prison has struck”, lamented the socialist deputy of Saône-et-Loire Cécile Untermaier. With the communist Elsa Faucillon (Hauts-de-Seine), she accused the presidential camp of “bargain with the right” to get the bill passed. La France insoumise pinned a “reactionary arc between Macronie, the right and the far right”. The National Assembly deputies brought the request for 7,000 to 10,000 additional places. With 73,699 people incarcerated in French prisons, the number of detainees reached a new unprecedented peak on June 1 and for the fifth time in a few months.
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