On Tuesday, July 7, the deputies approved a presumption of self-defense for a police officer or gendarme who uses his firearm.
Supported by the government, adopted by the combined voices of its supporters and the RN-UDR alliance, this text will have to go to the Senate. During an extremely tense session, left-wing deputies, denouncing a potential “license to kill”, attempted to prevent the vote with a barrage of amendments, circumvented by the government via a constitutional article.
“No justice, no peace,” representatives of groups of victims of police shootings shouted in the hemicycle after the vote, one of them being led out by Assembly officials.
