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October 27, 2005

France: Sarkozy's Anti-Terror Proposals

The minister of the interior, Nicolas Sarkozy (pictured) announced on Wednesday his plans for for an anti-terrorism law, yesterday's Le Monde reported. The following are the key points, hopefully translated accurately.

The plan of the anti-terrorism law, presented to a committee of ministers has eight chapters and sixteen articles.

The most "sensitive" measures are made the object of a "rendezvous clause" - in 2008 the parliament will evaluate these and decide whether or not to keep them. Two amendments could be proposed aimed at being passed in four or six days, in these particular cases, the close watch on terrorism and to guarantee the anonymity of investigators.

Video Surveillance

  • Authorisation for authorised persons to film the surrounds of buildings. Entitled investigators to be viewing such images.
  • In urgent cases, the possibility is granted to commissioners (of police) to have cameras installed for four months, without having to apply for a magistrate's order.
  • Possibility granted to a commissioner of imposing a duty of an organisation to be fitted with video-surveillance equipment in exposed places (industrial or nuclear sites, stations...)

    Control of Travel

  • Railway, airway and shipping companies to make available to the state personal details (name, address, telephone, date of birth, profession)
  • Automatic surveillance of vehicles (photographs of number plates and journeys). Apparatus relaying to a database of stolen vehicles
  • Identity controls made on cross-border trains. Rendezvous clause

    Telephone and Internet

  • Cyber-cafes must keep the information of connections (excluding contents), in the same manner, also for service providers. The length of preservation of details is rated as one year.
  • Possibility of authorised investigators to obtain these details. Rendezvous clause

    Databases
    Possibility for the police to gain access, in an administrative framework, to certain databases: number plates, driving licenses, identity cards, passeports, visa requests, residency permits, refusals of entry. Rendezvous clause.

    Suppression of Terrorism

  • Penalties of 30 years (instead of 20) for the directing of groups of terrorist wrongdoers having the purpose of attacks against persons, and 20 years (instead of 10) for the participation,
  • Centralisation from Paris of the length of these penalties

    Forfeiture of Nationality
    Passage from 10 to 15 years of delay during which a forfeiture of nationality is possible for someone convicted after their naturalisation.

    Freezing of Assets
    Rapid procedure to freeze assets on the decision of the minister of the economy for six months. Lengthening possible by the president of a Paris county court.

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    Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 27, 2005 4:51 PM

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