2024-01-31 19:52:25
Each attack has its own new anti-terrorism law. The attacks on Arras and the Bir-Hakeim bridge in the fall of 2023 were no exception to the rule in a context tense by the approach of the high-risk Olympic Games (OG). The Senate adopted, Tuesday January 30, by a very large majority – 235 votes for, 92 against – a bill tabled by the senator Les Républicains (LR) du Rhône and president of the law committee, François-Noël Buffet, and several of his LR and centrist colleagues. In the minds of its authors, the text, voted by the presidential majority in the Senate, aims at three objectives: strengthening the post-prison monitoring system for individuals convicted of terrorism; increase the means of repressing radicalized minors; and provide more resources for monitoring and repressing radicalization on social networks.
The most important provision of the adopted text is the institution of “two new judicial security detention measures, consisting of allowing the placement of a person convicted of terrorist crimes, upon their release, in a socio-medical-judicial security center or in an adapted reception establishment, if they present a very high probability of recidivism characterized by serious personality disorders or persistent adherence to an ideology or theories inciting the commission of acts of terrorism”, specifies the press release from the High Assembly. This provision applies to people sentenced to a criminal sentence of at least fifteen years’ imprisonment.
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Furthermore, the repetition of a terrorist offense, such as the apology of terrorism, will allow the establishment of security detention. The text also opens up the possibility of pronouncing “care obligations for those leaving prison convicted of terrorism with psychological disorders”like the alleged terrorist of the Bir-Hakeim bridge, who had interrupted his treatment with the consent of a psychiatrist.
“Prevent any action”
Concerning minors accused of terrorism, the number of which has multiplied worryingly over the last three years, the senatorial text “modifies the regime of judicial control, house arrest with electronic surveillance and pre-trial detention applicable to minors over 13 years of age”. Maximum pre-trial detention is increased from thirty days to three months for 13-16 year olds and up to two years for those over 16 indicted for terrorism. A disposition “authorizes the care of minors under the control of justice by the judicial protection of youth (PJJ) beyond their majority, so as to avoid interruptions in care”as was the case for the alleged perpetrator of the Arras attack, aged 20 and taken into care until he was 18.
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