NORMATIVE AND ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS OF THE FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM IN FRANCE

Abstract

Until the eighties years of the last century, the French criminal law in any way suggested on the concept of terrorism. This situation is completely overcome 1994. by the adoption of the Criminal Code, which devotes an entire chapter to terrorism, and terrorism itself define as a criminal offense. What more, with the criminal act of terrorism (Terrorism classic), a standardized and several mutually complementary incrimination, which in their totality virtually no residue "covering" terrorist crime: ecological terrorism, criminal conspiracy for terrorist purposes, the financing of terrorist enterprise, and failing to report terrorist acts or attack on the fundamental interests of the nation. Anti-terrorist criminal law since it complemented the different procedural provisions, among which the most important is the novella of the Code of Criminal Procedure since 2001. year. In parallel, in the last quarter-century have been carried out and the key reforms in the field of anti-terrorist organization fighting in France. The result of these reforms are a number of institutions, bodies and agencies responsible for preventing and combating terrorism, both at the political and administrative, and operational levels.