A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL: UCL Press Release: Presumption of Legitimate Killing (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

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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