Saintes, 16 November 2020 Subject : Your letter dated 8 October 2020, Attached. : Referendum Bill To Mme Florence Parly, "Ministre des Armées" Madame la Ministre,
I wrote to you back on 18 June 2020 to draw your attention to the shocking contradictions in France’s policy "in the matters of respect for international humanitarian law, and of disarmament, conventional or nuclear."
On 14 September 2020, President Macron thanked me for my letter and said he was drawing your attention to it. (...)

How can the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons contribute to abolishing them? Approximate answers are not enough, rigorous analysis is needed.
Its entry into force will occur on 22 January 2021. It emphasises the urgency of nuclear disarmament and it stigmatises nuclear weapons. But it has serious defects, and they permit the States possessing these weapons to escape from the ban and from eliminating their weapons.
To make this ban effective, we would have to amend the Treaty, (...)

Published in French on 23 October 2020,
Saintes, le 22 octobre 2020
Monsieur le Président de la République Subject : Terrorism and State Terror
Last evening, like millions of French people, I was watching my TV and was deeply moved by the national homage paid to Samuel Paty. At the Sorbonne, the very place where I did my philosophy studies, in the courtyard that I knew so well. Samuel Paty, my colleague in "freedom of (...)