The anti-collision law, promulgated on Thursday and for the first time in force on Saturday during the demonstrations of "yellow vests", "did not work", lamented Sunday the president of the party Republicans (LR) Laurent Wauquiez, castigating "a failure major authority ".
Emmanuel Macron "has weakened the law itself". "We're just at the 22nd weekend (mobilizing yellow vests, Editor's note) and you have again these images of thugs, people who destroy street furniture, who burn cars and who attack the forces of the order, "said Laurent Wauquiez, interviewed on BFMTV. "What we saw on Saturday is that the law on rioters did not work, because it was emptied of its substance by the censorship of the Constitutional Council," he said. estimated, calling into question the "President of the Republic (who) himself weakened the law by defering it to the Constitutional Council".
Adopted on March 12 in response to the violence during the mobilization of "yellow vests", the anti-collision law creates in particular a crime of willful concealment of "all or part" of the face, punishable by one year of imprisonment and 15,000 euros. fine. Article 3, which allowed prefects to issue administrative prohibitions to demonstrate, was censored by the Constitutional Council.
"We are witnessing a major failure of authority". According to a final assessment provided by the police headquarters, 35 people were arrested Saturday in Paris during the demonstration of "yellow vests". "We are witnessing a major failure of authority," insisted the president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. According to him, the government "did not take action soon enough (and) bears the responsibility for what happened yesterday".