The new law is making waves in a country in constant turmoil.
French deputies in the National Assembly passed a law giving police officers who become involved in shootings the ‘benefit of the doubt’.
Critics of the legislation are calling it a ‘license to kill’.
Reported to be a longstanding demand of the French right, (that MSM will always call the ‘far-right’), the law means that cops who kill someone during a shooting are presumed to have acted within the limits of the law – unless there is proof to the contrary.
Reuters reported:
“The law was approved by 313 votes to 199 in the lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, on Tuesday evening. The government has lent its support to the law, which still needs to be voted on by the upper house.
The number of fatal shootings by police in France is among the highest in Europe and rising. The agencies that carry out investigations of police in France, the IGPN and IGGN, recorded 69 people killed by police or gendarmerie officers in 2024, compared with 49 in 2023 and 50 in 2022.”
Hellbound and Down 