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The
lois scélérates ("villainous laws") is the
pejorative name for a set of
French laws restricting the
1881 freedom of the press laws passed under the
Third Republic (
1870-
1940), after several
bombings and
assassination attempts carried out by
anarchist proponents of "
propaganda of the deed". The first law was passed on
December 11,
1893, two days after
Auguste Vaillant's bombing of the
National Assembly on
December 9,
1893 (one person injured). It condemned
advocacy of any crime as a crime, which permitted the state to repress most of the anarchist press. The second law was passed on
December 18,
1893, and condemned any person directly or indirectly involved in a
propaganda of the deed act, even if no killing was effectively carried out. The last law was passed on
July 28,
1894, and condemned any person or newspaper using anarchist
propaganda (and, by extension,
socialist libertarians who were current or former members of the
International Workingmen's Association (IWA)):
Thus,
free speech and encouraging
propaganda of the deed or
antimilitarism was severely restricted. Some people were condemned to prison for rejoicing at the 1894 assassination of French president
Sadi Carnot by the Italian anarchist
Sante Geronimo Caserio.
The term has since entered popular language to designate any harsh or unjust laws, in particular
anti-terrorism legislation which often broadly represses whole
social movements.
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