On Tuesday, July 7, the National Assembly, by a very large majority (313 votes for, 199 against), adopted the bill on the legitimate use of firearms by police officers and gendarmes. This law destroys the few remaining legal barriers to the expansion of police violence, allowing the police to kill with impunity. Faced with this immense setback, the Libertarian Communist Union calls for joining all initiatives capable of building a broad front of resistance against state violence.
This bill, a key element of Jean-Marie Le Pen's platform, championed by LR (The Republicans) deputies during their allotted parliamentary time, has been adopted by Macron's party. If it completes its legislative journey, it stipulates that henceforth all "law enforcement" forces will have the right to shoot without being subject to an investigation. This is nothing less than a license to kill granted to the police. Given the number of deaths caused by the armed wing of the state, one might think that the justice system has never been a true safeguard against police brutality. But now, the burden of proof is completely reversed: it will no longer be up to the police to demonstrate a situation of "self-defense," but rather up to the victim to prove they did nothing wrong-no easy task when one is blinded in a hospital bed or six feet under with a bullet in the back. The presumption of self-defense enshrines a situation already all too common in the courts, as well as in political and media commentary on police crimes: it is up to the victim to prove their innocence and that they committed no crime, and not up to state agents to account for their own violence.
The reformist left tried to oppose this legislation with a mountain of amendments and constant procedural objections. Nevertheless, as always, the National Assembly does not protect us; it cannot act as a counterweight, and the executive branch can always find a legislative loophole to force its way through. Once again, government intervention via Article 44.2 allowed for a veto vote, effectively eliminating the left-wing amendments outright. Despite the outrage and protests of the members of parliament, the government silenced the vote, and the alliance of reactionaries from all sides (National Rally, The Republicans, Renaissance) allowed the police to fire on our class with impunity. All this happened in front of the families of the victims of police gunfire, who were present in the chamber. We join our voices with theirs: no justice, no peace.
The police kill, but not everyone. It kills people of color, residents of working-class neighborhoods, undocumented immigrants, environmental activists, and anti-fascists: it kills the working class because it knows the danger they represent to the State and capital. It kills us, but we will not stand for it. We saw it again yesterday: bourgeois democracy can do nothing for us; only our struggles, our solidarity, and our grassroots organization can save us.
The Libertarian Communist Union denounces the bill aimed at establishing a presumption of self-defense for the police, as well as all the previous racist and security laws that accompany the fascization of the country and whose sole purpose is to keep us under threat to protect the State and capital. We demand the disarmament and dissolution of the police because no professional body should be armed and have the power of life and death over others. The only solution is to overthrow this power and collectively take control of issues of justice and security. But until then, we remind you: national police, militia of capital! As long as we do not have justice, you will never have peace!
Libertarian Communist Union, July 10, 2026.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Presomption-de-legitime-assassinat
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