Crime of apologizing for terrorism, the waste of LFI – Libération

It is true, as La France insoumise says, that there is a real drift around the use of the 2014 law. But rather than launching a bombshell with a polemical scope more powerful than its legal scope, the party should have , if he had really wanted to change the law, to find political ways of compromise.

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Typical. La France insoumise, which wants to repeal the offense of glorifying terrorism in the penal code, makes impossible, by the very nature of its proposal, the necessary adjustment of a reform which, in practice, has been diverted from its intended purpose. object. In 2014, François Hollande, then president, under the pressure of events and to give himself the legal means to put the preachers of hatred out of harm's way, to be able to ban and condemn websites which justified terrorist acts and apologist for radical Islamism, had asked its majority to toughen anti-terrorism legislation. Thus the incrimination of advocating terrorism became a criminal incrimination. It was a bad idea. Judge Trévidic, who had been a fervent promoter of the 2014 law, agrees today. The incrimination of apologizing for terrorism, sorry