A draft law of this decision was examined Monday by the Commission of constitutional laws. "The Bill proposes the ultimate sanction, death penalty for anyone who personally, in collusion or complicity, commits a terrorist act."

The explanatory memorandum of the draft law on the Suppression of acts of terrorism was judged admissible by the conference of the presidents of the National Assembly last Friday under the chairmanship of Cavaye Yeguie Djibril and filed before the entire room.

The text indicated that even acts of financing, recruitment, laundering of the proceeds of terrorism, support, as can be read in the text, article 3 article 9 are liable to the same punishment.

Here, the military courts are only competent to deal with these acts. The Bill proposed by the Government indicated that even a legal person may be held criminally liable. In this case, "the penalty is a fine which the minimum is 50 million F', as stated in article 6.

Anyone who could be recognized as guilty of condoning terrorism, if the text is adopted and promulgated, it "is punishable by imprisonment from 15 to 20 years and a fine of 25 to 50 million F or one of these two penalties." The falsehoods and scurrilous denunciations are also punishable under the present Bill.

Their perpetrators incur a sentence of 20 years imprisonment while life imprisonment is recommended for threatening a witness, "even implicitly, violence, assault or death." This Bill comes after two other already adopted during the current parliamentary session.

The second text investigated so far is the Bill amending and supplementing certain provisions of the law of September 10, 1997 on private security activities. These changes concern a dozen articles.

They aim is to put an end to the misinterpretation of the opinion issued by the Commission for the review of applications for approval. The practice of this activity can be made only after obtaining prior approval that may be issued by Decree of the president of the Republic.