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What’s behind French protests against a new police bill?



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xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoA protester with a placard which reads 'police everywhere, justice nowhere' takes part in a march against the bill dubbed the 'permis de tuer' (licence to kill) in Paris, France on September 20, 2026 [File: Geoffroy van der Hasselt/AFP]By Mariamne EverettPublished On 22 Sep 202622 Sep 2026France was rocked by protests on Sunday against proposed legislation that would grant additional protections to law enforcement officials using firearms

The new law, which critics say will grant police officers a “licence to kill”, comes amid mounting allegations of police brutality in recent years, particularly against immigrant communities in the banlieues – outlying suburbs – of Paris and other major cities.

So what is the new law, why is it controversial and where have protests taken place?

Thousands of people marched in France over the weekend against the proposed law which would grant armed police and gendarmes the presumption of self-defence if they use their weapons while carrying out their duties.

This means that complainants against police brutality would have to prove that a police officer was not acting in self-defence.

A petition against the bill lodged by Issam El Khalfaoui, whose son was shot dead by a police officer in 2021, on the website of the National Assembly, gathered 730,000 signatures earlier in the year, but a parliamentary law committee dismissed it in July.

Thousands of people marched in the French capital Paris over the weekend while many other protests were organised in cities across France. Police said about 8,200 people demonstrated in the southern French cities of Lyon and Toulouse alone.

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