Overview
- France’s National Assembly plans a solemn vote Tuesday to adopt a bill that restores a 210-day detention limit removed in earlier debates.
- The longer stay would apply only to foreigners under an order to leave France who have a prior sentence of at least three years and who are judged a real, current, and particularly serious threat.
- The text also adds counterterror tools that let a prefect order a psychiatric exam, authorize forced hospitalization, and create post-prison terrorism safety detention in medical care.
- Backers span President Macron’s centrist camp, Les Républicains and the far-right National Rally, and the bill would move to the Senate for review in mid-May if passed.
- Left-wing parties and NGOs warn the measure is disproportionate and ineffective, noting over 40,000 people were held in 2024 and that most deportations occur early in detention after a broader extension was struck down last summer.