In Israel, violent repression of a demonstration of opponents of judicial reform
A new anti-government demonstration was suppressed on Wednesday by the police, who used deafening grenades and water cannons. This new demonstration comes after the Israeli Parliament adopted a new law in preliminary reading as part of the reform of justice.
Clashes opposed Wednesday 1er March in Tel Aviv, police and protesters against government judicial reform and which they consider undemocratic, while Parliament adopted two controversial new bills in preliminary reading.
During the demonstration, several streets and traffic lanes were blocked and the police used water cannons and deafening grenades, journalists from the AFP.
Horse police also attempted to disperse the crowd. In a statement, the police said they arrested 39 people for disturbing public order.
Eleven injured protesters were taken care of at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, said hospital spokesman at AFP.
This new event comes while the Knesset ( Israeli Parliament ), meeting the same day in plenary session, adopted a new law in the context of justice reform in preliminary reading, announced in early January by the government that Benjamin Netanyahu formed in December with far-right parties and ultra-Orthodox Jewish formations.
The deputies adopted by 62 votes to 20 out of the 120 in Parliament, a bill which aims to limit the possibilities of dismissal of a Prime Minister.
This will only be possible if at least 90 deputies are in favor and only in the event of physical or mental incapacity.
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According to the procedure, the proposal must go through a committee of the Parliament, which will decide to submit it to a vote at first reading.
According to critics of the reform, it aims to reduce the influence of the judiciary in favor of political power, threatening the balance of power and the democratic character of the State of Israel.
But Benjamin Netanyahu and his Minister of Justice Yariv Levin consider it necessary to restore a balanced balance of power between elected officials and the Supreme Court, that the Prime Minister and his allies consider politicized.
MEPs also adopted a preliminary reading of a law to impose "the death penalty on terrorists", by 55 deputies against 9.
Capital punishment for terrorists has long been demanded by some far-right MPs, but it has never found enough support to become law.
The text would, however, be unlikely to be adopted in Israel - where the death penalty was only applied once by civil justice, against Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, in 1962 - ultra-Orthodox formations being inclined, for religious reasons, to vote against.
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