Fabien Roussel judges that the Insoumis bill is “poorly written”

The initiative of La France Insoumise (LFI) has not finished agitating the New Popular Front (NFP). While Northern MP Ugo Bernalicis tabled a bill last week aimed at repealing the offense of glorifying terrorism from the Penal Code – introduced in 2014 – on the grounds that it has accentuated “the instrumentalization of the fight against terrorism” against the “freedom of expression”, part of the non-LFI left has distanced itself from their Mélenchonist partners. Especially since the article in question was adopted ten years ago by a socialist majority, under the mandate of François Hollande – who once again became deputy for Corrèze thanks to the dissolution.

The day after the details of the leader of the LFI deputies Mathilde Panot, who affirmed on BFMTV that she wanted “to put back” the crime “in the right place” by removing it from the Penal Code in favor of press rights, the communist Fabien Roussel played a balancing act. Invited Monday evening by France 5, the national secretary of the PCF first gave an update to the Insoumis, considering that the previous law “strengthening the provisions relating to the fight against terrorism” – carried at the time by Bernard Cazeneuve – is “misused, misused, used to excess.”

“Buzz for 48 hours”

Then the former deputy from the North judged in a second step that the LFI proposal tabled “is poorly done, poorly written” since the editors “say that we must repeal the existing offense” sans “write that it must be reverted to the old version”, namely in press law. “This article is missing. If this text were voted on, it (the crime, editor’s note) would be repealed but not reinstated. And therefore there would no longer be legal means to condemn and prosecute those who advocate terrorism.squeaked Fabien Roussel, who denounced the LFI strategy in search of a “buzz for 48 hours”. The opportunity to remind the rebels, regularly accused of complicity with Hamas, “that we must be intractable in the fight against terrorism, like racism, and anti-Semitism.”