A-Infos (en) France, OCL CA #352 - Big Brother: Chronicles of Control and Repression; Wednesday, August 6, 2025, by Courant Alternatif (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The Chronicles of Control and Repression for Summer 2025 ---- * The Drug 
Trafficking Law Is Final ---- * Foreigners Targeted: The Prefectural 
Memorandum Suspended (Once Again!) ---- * General Acquittal in the Trial 
of the Bure "Female Criminals" ---- * GL-304 Stun Grenades: The Police's 
New Weapon! ---- * Kossdar: 4 Years in Prison for Nothing ---- * Gaza: 
One Minute Too Long for National Education! ---- The Drug Trafficking 
Law Is Final ---- Of the 38 articles of the law "aimed at freeing France 
from the drug trafficking trap" referred to the Constitutional Council, 
only six were censored, in whole or in part. And the biggest blow came 
out unscathed: the judges declared the article of the law creating 
organized crime units in prisons to be constitutional. Many lawyers and 
prisoners' rights groups had hoped that the Constitutional Council 
would, in the name of human dignity, censure this new prison regime, 
modeled on that of Italy. However, the Council ruled that "the 
conditions governing the decision of the Minister of Justice to assign a 
detainee to an organized crime unit" do not violate the "principle of 
safeguarding human dignity"!
However, the members of the Constitutional Council expressed 
reservations regarding the case of systematic, full-body searches of 
prisoners. While the Council validated their principle, based in 
particular on a decision of the European Court of Human Rights, it was 
keen to emphasize that such searches should only be carried out when 
surveillance by a prison officer "has been prevented by special 
circumstances relating to the privacy of the detainee, the need to 
preserve the confidentiality of their communications, or exceptional 
difficulties in organizing the prison service."
Among the six censored articles, three are particularly important and 
sensitive. But the main setback for the government and the majority is 
the censorship of Article 14 of the text, which extended the purposes 
authorizing the use of automated internet traffic monitoring 
algorithms-the infamous "black boxes" introduced by the 2015 
Intelligence Act-to threats related to crime and organized crime. These 
algorithms "can use not only data relating to the identification of 
users of services provided by operators, the technical characteristics 
of the communications provided by the latter, and the location of 
terminal equipment, but also the full addresses of resources used on the 
Internet," the decision emphasizes.
They "thus allow for large-scale systematic and automated analysis of 
data likely to relate to the content of correspondence exchanged or 
information consulted in the context of these communications."
Also censored, the article allowed for the addition of certain crimes 
and offenses of corruption and influence peddling to the list of 
offenses, included in Article 706-73 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 
relating to organized crime and delinquency and subject, as such, to a 
specific procedure, providing in particular for an extension of the 
period of police custody. Finally, the last measure that was completely 
censored was the one allowing hearings for particularly dangerous drug 
traffickers to be held by videoconference from prison, in order to avoid 
the suspect being transferred. The Council considered that "the fact 
that the person concerned may be deprived, for the entire duration of 
his pretrial detention, of the opportunity to appear in person before a 
judge is an excessive infringement of the rights of the defense." The 
judges therefore asked the legislature to redraft its work and give 
prisoners the opportunity to request a physical meeting with their judge.
Another censorship concerns the "safe file." The initial text provided 
that certain information relating to investigative techniques 
(installation of microphones, cameras, wiretapping, etc.) could be 
placed in a "safe" and, therefore, no longer be subject to adversarial 
debate. The Council ruled that a criminal conviction handed down on the 
basis of evidence whose "conditions of collection" the accused could not 
contest would not satisfy the "requirements of Article 16 of the 
Declaration of 1789." Nevertheless, the Constitutional Council does not 
censure the principle of the safe file, an unprecedented step backwards 
in the rights of the defense, but simply the possibility of basing a 
conviction on these elements alone.
It is especially noteworthy that, despite some criticism, the prison 
regime in high-security units has not been overturned!
Sources: lemonde.fr and médiapart.fr

Foreigners Targeted: Prefectural Memorandum Suspended
(Once Again!)

On May 20, 2025, the Montreuil Administrative Court suspended a new 
prefectural memorandum requiring the Seine-Saint-Denis police to 
systematically report to the Prefecture any legally resident foreign 
nationals placed in police custody.
This decision comes just a few weeks after that of the Nantes 
Administrative Court, which had already ruled an identical instruction 
issued by the interdepartmental director of the Loire-Atlantique 
national police to be unlawful (see this section in the May 
Administrative Court). This is therefore no longer an isolated incident: 
it is a deliberate, assumed, and coordinated policy aimed at organizing, 
under the guise of public order, a targeted registration of foreign 
nationals, regardless of any conviction and outside any legal framework. 
Moreover, police custody is supposed to be covered by investigative 
secrecy, and the prefectural administration has no access to it.
These measures were undoubtedly not limited to Loire-Atlantique or 
Seine-Saint-Denis. Everything suggests that other similar notes, files, 
or tables were put in place elsewhere, in complete secrecy. Source: 
gisti.org

General acquittal in the trial of the Bure "criminals"
After eight years of proceedings, following a second hearing before the 
Nancy Court of Appeal on April 24, 2025 (after the Court of Cassation 
overturned the first judgment on appeal), the judgment is very clear: a 
general acquittal for all the defendants, on all the charges still 
pending against them.
"This long-awaited acquittal is, first and foremost, a victory for the 
struggle, the one we have waged together and will continue to wage 
against the proposed radioactive waste disposal site, against nuclear 
power and its world. It is also a victory for collective defense, 
magnificently waged, with determination and often panache, by our 
lawyers and supporters." This acquittal is finally the defeat of an 
entire state system that tramples on democracy and uses the justice 
system to force its way through by harshly striking a protest. A police 
and judicial debauchery that has weighed on dozens of us, our loved 
ones, our families, our friends, for eight years and attempted to 
paralyze the protests. For eight years now, the State has attacked the 
Bure protests with millions of euros of police officers and 
disproportionate investigative resources, intimidation, harassment, and 
violence against opponents. The justice system, for its part, has 
continued to this day, with appalling obstinacy, to nitpick to justify 
this waste of public money.
In a surprising coincidence, it was yesterday, June 4, 2025, that the 
Court of Auditors issued a report on the subject: "This security 
represents a significant financial burden for Andra, in the order of 
EUR10 million per year since 2018, linked to the permanent presence of 
police officers on site and the rental of bungalows; To which could be 
added an additional investment of EUR11 million over the period 
(2023-2028) to improve the gendarmes' reception facilities." And it 
should be added that this does not take into account the million euros 
that the investigation of this case has cost!
A meeting has already been scheduled for September 20th to unite the 
struggles of yesterday, today, and tomorrow in Bure in a large 
demonstration opposing the Cigéo project!
Contact: noussommestousdesmalfaiteurs@riseup.net

Source: Attaque.noblogs.org

GL-304 grenades: the new police weapon!
In 2023, after the pension movement and the Nahel revolt, the government 
ordered EUR18 million worth of explosive grenades. A model manufactured 
in Brazil by a company called Condor was chosen. Condor is the name of a 
Latin American scavenger bird, but also the name of "Plan Condor," a 
campaign to assassinate left-wing activists by the secret services of 
Latin American dictatorships, including Brazil, in the 1970s. The 
Brazilian police are considered the deadliest on the planet. Between 
2015 and 2019, approximately 25,000 Brazilians were killed by police 
officers, or around 5,000 deaths per year. Their modus operandi? War. 
Militarized units from the dictatorship era enter the favelas with 
armored vehicles and weapons of war, shooting at anything that moves.
Since this is a new model, it had to be tested in the field. This was 
done against the riots surrounding PSG's Champions League victory. Let's 
remember here that the world of football is, like the suburbs and 
certain social struggles, a testing ground for new methods of 
repression. It was in stadiums that the first video surveillance systems 
with facial recognition were tested, and it was around stadiums that the 
police organized their first "traps" around groups of supporters. It was 
therefore logical that a new grenade was first used against PSG 
supporters, many of whom had come from the suburbs of the capital, 
during the Champions League.
Europe 1, Bolloré's radio station, explains that these munitions will be 
"used to disperse crowds with a blast and deafening effect" and that 
they "release a cloud of white powder as well as excess pressure to 
accentuate disorientation." The station continues: "This 
intermediate-strength weapon was chosen to minimize the risk of 
collateral damage." Nonsense! Every time a new toy is given to the 
police, it's the same old refrain. In the 1990s, the Flash-Ball was 
presented as an "anti-blunder weapon," which would allow police officers 
to never use their firearms again. With the LBD, we were promised that, 
given the weapon's accuracy, no one would be hit in the head again. The 
opposite has happened. With the GM2L explosive grenade currently in use, 
the police assured that it was "less dangerous" than previous models, 
which had blown off the hands of Yellow Vests. Since it was distributed 
in 2021, the GM2L has blown off several hands and caused numerous very 
serious injuries, notably in Sainte-Soline... This new GL-304 weapon is 
sold as "less dangerous" because it would not propel shrapnel more than 
10 meters. On its website, Condor warns that its hand grenades "must be 
thrown more than 10 meters from people," a precaution "impossible to 
respect for ammunition thrown by hand into a dense crowd," emphasizes 
the Let's Disarm Them collective.
Source: contre-attaque.net

Reminder: He spent 4 years in prison for nothing
On October 8, 2016, two police cars were attacked with Molotov cocktails 
by masked youths in Viry-Châtillon (91), near the Grande Borne district. 
Four police officers were seriously injured, and the incident made 
headlines. A few months later, Kossdar, a young rapper from Grigny (91), 
was searched, taken into police custody, and then placed in pretrial 
detention for attempted murder. During his hearings, he maintained his 
innocence and had "nothing to do with this attack, directly or 
indirectly." "I'm 19, it's the first time I've been put in the closet," 
says Kossdar, convinced he won't stay in prison for long. But while 
awaiting the first trial, he spent two and a half years in the 
Bois-d'Arcy remand center (78), where "the living conditions are 
atrocious." In 2019, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Kossdar 
"didn't believe it," convinced he was about to be released from prison. 
"It affected me so much," he recalls. The young rapper appealed the same 
day. In 2021, Médiapart revealed that police officers in charge of the 
investigation "distorted, when writing their reports, the words of their 
main witness, to the point of making him say the opposite of what he had 
stated." That same year, after four years and three months in detention, 
Kossdar was acquitted, along with seven other defendants. Four years and 
three months in prison for nothing.

Source: streetpress.com

A minute of silence for Gaza is a minute too long for the National 
Education system!
A teacher at the Janot Curie high school in Sens was suspended after 
organizing a minute of silence on March 18, at the initiative of her 
students, in tribute to all the civilian victims in Gaza. On March 31, 
this teacher learned that she was suspended until further notice and 
that a disciplinary investigation had been launched against her. A joint 
union (FO, CGT Education, and Sud Solidaires) called for a strike and a 
demonstration on June 3, where more than 200 people demonstrated. The 
suspended teacher said: "The strike is there both to demand an end to 
the genocide and an end to France's support for it, and to trigger 
something." The idea is to make this drop in the ocean, this totally 
absurd suspension, spark a movement... and obviously also lead to my 
reinstatement." National Education Minister E. Borne said: "She has 
deviated from the principle of neutrality that applies to our teachers." 
But on June 5, this teacher was reinstated by decision of the Dijon 
education authority, with a simple warning. The mobilization paid off!

Source: Inter-union leaflets

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