The Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin said on Tuesday June 23 that he was in favor of the establishment of administrative files allowing the monitoring of child molesters, like S files for people likely to endanger state security.
The Minister of Justice was questioned during the question session to the government (QAG) by the deputy Antoine Vermorel-Marques (Les Républicains), who is proposing a bill allowing the creation of a “pre-detection file for the risks of sexual assault on minors”, which would aggregate by interconnection the data from the main existing judicial files. This proposal comes at a time when Jérôme Barella, suspected of the murder of Lyhanna, an 11-year-old schoolgirl, had been the subject of several complaints and reports before the tragedy without being pursued by the courts.
“I am personally very favorable to the proposal that you are making,” declared Gérald Darmanin, indicating that the “principle and provisions” would be adopted within the framework of the bill on child protection, which must begin its examination in the Assembly in July.
“The question you are asking is (…) are there administrative files – since you draw the parallel with terrorism, like S files – which are administrative information files and which do not allow arrests but surveillance? This is an extremely important debate,” the minister explained. “For this, the Ministry of the Interior would need to create an administrative file, even if it means being informed by intelligence measures, including judicial ones.”
Missing file interconnections
But for this, the National Commission for Information Technology and Liberties (Cnil) must give its agreement for “the creation of this type of files for the intelligence services and for the police, gendarmerie and justice services”, which it has refused “since the years 2000 and 2010”.
He proposed to the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, to contact the CNIL “together to ask it to very quickly unblock these interconnections of files which, in fact, we are missing, which are authorized in European countries” but not in France.
Antoine Vermorel-Marques welcomed the commitment of the Minister of Justice, while stressing that he would remain “vigilant on (s) a concrete translation” in the law. “After the tragedy of Lyhanna, we can no longer accept that information exists, but remains scattered between the services,” he insisted. “The issue is simple: detect sexual predators known to the State earlier and keep them away from children faster. »
The MP’s proposal had already received the support of Renaissance president Gabriel Attal.
