This is popular front a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and

underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. In this episode we're speaking to journalist Sebastian Bourdon.

He's going to be speaking to us about the proposed law in France that basically wants to give the police increased

powers. The police in France are already quite brutal with very little accountability, so the people of France have been

kicking off about this they're in violent clashes Sebastian is going to explain

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There's this new law has been brought in originally McCrom basically from what I understand

wanted to make it semi-illegal to film on-duty police officers. People in France are going mad like kicking off,

there's clashes.

Tell us what's going on.

How did this will start and like what are the details of it?

So the lawyer you're talking about is called in French Loa Security Global, which translates roughly into global security law or global security bill.

And it's a bill of law that has been pushed forward by Macron's government,

and especially by he's a minister of Interior, whose name is Gerald D'Arminon and it's basically a law that covers many many different aspects related to the police in France but yes one of the articles of this bill of law and probably

the one that's been the most debated about is the article 24 and it's about basically about filming the police.

The actual article at first was not supposedly forbidding anyone to film the police but what could

what what based on this article would have become or would become illegal is to share images of the police with the intention to

harm physically or psychologically a police officer.

And of course, that is a very,

I guess it's not very clear what this means and the intention I mean I guess it would be very

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