French PM seeks to fast-track security bill after PSG soccer victory violence

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu ​said on Tuesday he would ​ask President Emmanuel Macron ‌to call ​an extraordinary parliamentary session in early July to speed up adoption of the government's RIPOST ‌security bill after violence linked to Paris Saint-Germain's Champions League victory. The bill was presented by the government on March 25 and has already been cleared ‌by the Senate. It targets what the government calls everyday disorder, including ‌illegal rave parties, misuse of nitrous oxide, fireworks mortars and drug use, and would widen some police and surveillance powers.

More than 200 people were injured and one person ⁠died ​in Paris after ⁠Paris Saint-Germain won soccer's Champions League for a second straight year, the interior ministry said ⁠on Sunday. * Lecornu told the National Assembly he would propose the RIPOST bill ​be put on the agenda in the week of July 6.

* ⁠Lecornu also said France does not do enough to make perpetrators pay for what ⁠they ​destroy, saying repair costs were too often "charged to society". * Lecornu said he had asked ministers to come up quickly with proposals to ⁠recover those sums more effectively and to act in a "much more coercive" way.

* ⁠He ruled out ⁠suspending welfare benefits, but floated using part of benefit payments, excluding a minimum living allowance, to finance compensation ‌for damage.

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