Police The idea is to better punish perpetrators who do not own the vehicle used during the rodeo
The forces of order want to put an end to urban rodeos. (illustration) — SYSPEO/SIPA
The joke has gone on long enough. The government has decided to whistle the end of the recreation concerning the urban rodeos, by tightening the legislation within the framework of the orientation and programming law of the Ministry of the Interior. Thus, the Assembly adopted, at 74 votes for and 0 against, the possibility to confiscate the vehicles of “urban rodeos”, even when they have not been used in the offence.
According to the authors of the Renaissance and Horizons amendments, it is also a question of being able to sanction “the author of the rodeo who does not own the machine”, the latter escaping “In the current state of the law,” confiscation” of a vehicle. The measurement is added to the a series of provisions introduced by the Senate, widely adopted Thursday by the deputies (74 for against 5), which reinforce the penalties for the authors of motorized rodeos or refusal to to comply, but also for the perpetrators of violence overelected, aligned with those planned for attacks against the forces of order.
The “stamp” stay on the sidelines
The Assembly, on the other hand, rejected RN amendments, calling for a legal framework to be enshrined in law to authorize law enforcement agencies to using “tactical contact”, a technique also known as “stamp”, to tackle perpetrators of rodeos or refusal to comply. “The British method carried its fruits,” RN Michaël Tavern. “We need to send a message, to whistle the end of recess,” the arrest of these speeders”.
“There is no note from the General Directorate of the National Police that prohibits arrests or prohibits prosecution, it’s ‘fake news’,” plied in the hemicycle the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin. “What is being told to the police,” he continued,”is that a “prosecution should just be proportionate to the risk it poses” both to the police themselves and to people on the road or on the sidewalks. “Stop repeating that there is prohibition to prosecute, there is authorization to prosecute except when the police team considers that at some point he endangers the lives of others,” said the minister. After its adoption by the Senate, the examination in first reading of the law defended by Gérald Darmanin must continue in March. Assembly at least until Friday.