The deputies of the Republican Right group, led by Laurent Wauquiez, tabled a bill on Thursday to significantly extend the detention period of “dangerous illegal aliens”, in the context of the Philippine affair, a young student killed last week in Paris .
The suspect, a 22-year-old Moroccan already convicted of rape and under an obligation to leave the territory, had just been released from detention, which led to “an absolute tragedy” according to right-wing deputies, who have tabled this text “aimed at better protecting society from dangerous illegal aliens and facilitating their expulsion”.
They therefore propose to increase “the maximum period of detention of illegal immigrants to 135 days instead of the 90 currently planned”, or even to 210 days “for a foreigner convicted of a crime” – a period already applied to the perpetrators of terrorist acts. .
The right-wing deputies also want to restrict the role of the judge who must validate each extension of detention, by removing “the obligations of justification up to 90 days”. After these 90 days, they also want to remove from the judge the possibility of releasing a foreigner before the maximum period, as long as his country of origin has not given the assurance of providing “within a short period of time” a permit. pass consular permitting his expulsion.
“Justice was irresponsible, but the State also failed (…) How many tragedies do we need for our political leaders to become aware of what is happening today in the country? » for his part launched the president of the National Rally on France 2.
“Judicial laxity has dramatic consequences on insecurity,” continued Jordan Bardella, meeting on October 31 at the National Assembly, for the examination of a proposed RN law proposing to systematize expulsions of adult foreigners definitively convicted of a crime or misdemeanor “punishable by a sentence of at least three years of imprisonment”.
“We consider that from the moment a foreigner on French soil commits a crime or misdemeanor, he must be immediately expelled,” he added.
The man suspected of having raped and killed Philippine was released from the Metz administrative detention center on September 3, a few days before Morocco responded positively to the request from the French authorities.
