{"id":1181,"date":"2017-01-17T09:05:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T09:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.endcorporalpunishment.net\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2017-10-07T09:18:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T08:18:19","slug":"french-constitutional-council-annuls-article-prohibiting-the-use-of-corporal-violence-against-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/french-constitutional-council-annuls-article-prohibiting-the-use-of-corporal-violence-against-children\/","title":{"rendered":"French Constitutional Council annuls article prohibiting the use of \u201ccorporal violence\u201d against children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several provisions of the Equality and Citizenship Law voted in December last year were annulled yesterday (26 January 2017) by the French Constitutional Council, including article 222 prohibiting the use of \u201ccorporal violence\u201d against children.<\/p>\n

Soon after the law was voted, opposition MPs referred it to the Constitutional Council and challenged the constitutionality of several of its provisions. The challenge brought forward by the\u00a0senateurs<\/em>\u00a0(members of the upper house of Parliament) specifically called out article 222 as a\u00a0cavalier legislatif<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 they claimed that the amendment which added article 222 to the Equality and Citizenship Bill had no link, even indirect, with the original text of the Bill and was therefore unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

The government defended the Law by arguing that the original text contained several provisions related to young people and that by prohibiting all forms of violence against children, article 222 did tie in with the initial Bill. However, the Constitutional Council ultimately agreed with the\u00a0senateurs\u2019<\/em>\u00a0challenge and found article 222 unconstitutional as having no direct or indirect link with the initial text. The Council\u2019s decision cannot be appealed.<\/p>\n

The French Minister for Family had applauded the vote of the article and expressed deep disappointment upon hearing of the Council\u2019s decision,\u00a0criticising<\/a>\u00a0the opposition\u2019s decision to challenge the article as a misguided attempt to preserve the \u201cright\u201d of parents to hit their children.<\/p>\n

Le Conseil constitutionnel fran\u00e7ais censure l’article interdisant les “violences corporelles” contre les enfants<\/h2>\n

Le 26 janvier 2017, le Conseil constitutionnel\u00a0fran\u00e7ais a censur\u00e9 plusieurs dispositions de la loi \u00c9galit\u00e9 et Citoyennet\u00e9 adopt\u00e9e en d\u00e9cembre dernier,\u00a0dont l’article 222 qui interdisait le recours aux “violences corporelles”\u00a0contre les enfants.<\/p>\n

Peu apr\u00e8s le vote de la loi, des parlementaires de l’opposition avaient d\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9 le texte adopt\u00e9 au Conseil constitutionnel pour contester la constitutionnalit\u00e9 de plusieurs de ses dispositions. La saisine introduite par les s\u00e9nateurs qualifiait l’article 222 de “cavalier l\u00e9gislatif”, c’est-\u00e0-dire qu’elle accusait l’amendement ajoutant cet article au projet de loi \u00c9galit\u00e9 et Citoyennet\u00e9 de n’avoir aucun rapport, m\u00eame indirect, avec l’objet du projet de loi initial, et d’\u00eatre par cons\u00e9quent inconstitutionnel.<\/p>\n

Le gouvernement a d\u00e9fendu la loi en avan\u00e7ant que le texte original contenait plusieurs dispositions relatives \u00e0 la jeunesse, et que l’interdiction de toutes les formes de violence contre les enfants \u00e9tait donc bien en lien avec le projet de loi. Le Conseil constitutionnel a n\u00e9anmoins donn\u00e9 raison aux s\u00e9nateurs, d\u00e9clarant l’article inconstitutionnel en raison de l’absence de lien direct ou indirect avec le texte initial du projet. La d\u00e9cision du Conseil est d\u00e9finitive.<\/p>\n

La ministre des Familles, qui avait salu\u00e9 l’adoption de l’amendement, a exprim\u00e9 sa grande d\u00e9ception \u00e0 l’annonce de la d\u00e9cision de Conseil. Elle a notamment\u00a0critiqu\u00e9<\/a>\u00a0le recours de l’opposition contre cet article, le d\u00e9crivant comme une tentative malavis\u00e9e de prot\u00e9ger le “droit” des parents \u00e0 frapper leurs enfants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several provisions of the Equality and Citizenship Law voted in December last year were annulled yesterday (26 January 2017) by the French Constitutional Council, including article 222 prohibiting the use of \u201ccorporal violence\u201d against children. Soon after the law was voted, opposition MPs referred it to the Constitutional Council and challenged the constitutionality of several […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[42,41],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-children","tag-europe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}