Demonstration against the anti-breakers law: “there is a crescendo of the interventionism of justice in social issues”

Two weeks after the vote on first reading of this bill in the Justice Committee of the Chamber, several trade unions and organizations from civil society met on Wednesday morning at 10:00 a.m. to proclaim their opposition to this text. “Despite the proposed amendments, the government wants to sprint so that this text passes before the summer”, denounces Thierry Bodson, president of the FGTB. “We are in the process of breaking social consultation.” And to denounce “a real crescendo of the interventionism of justice in social issues”. The president of the FGTB also deplores the lack of consultation with the trade unions in the drafting of this law.

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As a reminder, the law provides for a ban on demonstrations for people who have been guilty of violence during demonstrations beforehand. “But we could very well imagine that we make a demonstration in front of the office of a political party on which we throw eggs, for example, which would fall under the scope of this law. However, it is not fatal”, comments Thierry Bodson.

“We still hope to move the lines via our political relays, but we must admit that the current progress is insufficient,” said Myriam Delmée, president of Setca. “We have to stay mobilized. Without the noise we are making, the text would have already been voted in stoemelings”, underlines for his part Olivier Valentin, secretary general of the CGSLB.

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”We have already had the experience of activists being prosecuted for peaceful actions. This reform is an attack on our democracy”, adds Carine Thibaut, spokesperson for Greenpeace. “We have witnessed the authoritarian excesses that changes in the Penal Code can lead to. We are not reassured by this project”, confirms Emmanuelle Hardy of the League of Human Rights. Thierry Bodson agrees with them: “in a country where the far right is gaining ground, we cannot let this law pass.”

The coalition indicates that new actions may take place after July 5, the date on which the text in question must pass a second reading before the Justice Committee of the Chamber. In the meantime, a “trade unionists not criminals” website has been created to flood the mailboxes of federal deputies with trade union demands.