An action against the death penalty
Amnesty International Figeac and local elected officials celebrated the International Day for Peace and Against the Death Penalty on Saturday November 30 by inaugurating the exhibition that Amnesty International Figeac installed along the Calvary stairs. In the presence of a large audience, Hélène Lacipière, vice-president of Grand Figeac in charge of culture and heritage, recalled that Figeac is a committed and united city. “We are touched and attached to these causes which are questions of life and death. We are delighted to live in a country where, since 1981, the death penalty has been abolished. But the death penalty, by extension, is is also the death of civilians, of helpless civilians in the theaters of war. I think of what is happening in Palestine, in Ukraine. And closer to us, I think of these women killed, of all these feminicides, more. 123 in France to date. This is why we are gathered today.”
François Teinturier, from the Amnesty team in Figeac, notably listed the very long list of countries where the death penalty is still applied. The deputy for Lot, Christophe Proença, insisted, with historical examples to support it, on a reality: the threat of the death penalty does not prevent crimes. The elected official also pointed out the conditions of detention in French prisons, notwithstanding “the blows of the Minister of the Interior against delinquency and repeat offenders”: “Keeping people in unworthy conditions of detention is the very assurance recidivism”, insisted the Lotois MP, who concluded his speech with a quote from Victor Hugo, tutelary figure of French humanism: “The death penalty brings us all back to barbarism.”
Amnesty International Figeac and local elected officials celebrated the International Day for Peace and Against the Death Penalty on Saturday November 30 by inaugurating the exhibition that Amnesty International Figeac installed along the Calvary stairs. In the presence of a large audience, Hélène Lacipière, vice-president of Grand Figeac in charge of culture and heritage, recalled that Figeac is a committed and united city. “We are touched and attached to these causes which are questions of life and death. We are delighted to live in a country where, since 1981, the death penalty has been abolished. But the death penalty, by extension, is is also the death of civilians, of helpless civilians in the theaters of war. I think of what is happening in Palestine, in Ukraine. And closer to us, I think of these women killed, of all these feminicides, more. 123 in France to date. This is why we are gathered today.”
François Teinturier, from the Amnesty team in Figeac, notably listed the very long list of countries where the death penalty is still applied. The deputy for Lot, Christophe Proença, insisted, with historical examples to support it, on a reality: the threat of the death penalty does not prevent crimes. The elected official also pointed out the conditions of detention in French prisons, notwithstanding “the blows of the Minister of the Interior against delinquency and repeat offenders”: “Keeping people in unworthy conditions of detention is the very assurance recidivism”, insisted the Lotois MP, who concluded his speech with a quote from Victor Hugo, tutelary figure of French humanism: “The death penalty brings us all back to barbarism.”
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