After two months of operation, the state of emergency the day of reckoning – The Express

The measure must be exceptional, she will eventually become normal? Approved by the French massively after the attacks of November 13 but contested by the defenders of human rights, state of emergency could be extended after February 26. The decision will be made “in the coming days,” said the head of state’s entourage. L’Express reported on the supposed effectiveness of this device.

Figures

According to sources from the ministries of justice and interior, since the introduction of state of emergency, 3099 searches Administrative occurred. In addition, 542 criminal cases have been opened. House arrest and 382 were decided.

More anecdotally, temporary closures of three theaters, pubs and meeting places have been declared. In addition, a curfew was ordered, as well as three security protection zones were announced. In all, the balance sheet stood at 366 people arrested, 316 and 500 in police discovered weapons views. This diagram gives an overview of these figures as of 7 January 2016.

Interventions in large cities

The searches took place between 14 November and 15 December mainly in large cities, according Francetvinfo: Paris, Rennes, Lyon, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Marseille, Rennes, Toulouse but also Orléans, Grenoble, Agen, Pau, Nimes, Angers, Bastia, Grenoble, Dijon, Besançon Colmar, Nancy, Reims, Douai, Amiens, Rouen, Caen, Versailles, Metz, Nancy and Besançon.

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A diet contested

In January, according to the World Decoders , most offenses unrelated to terrorism. Of the 464 listed offenses, only 25 offenses are links to terrorism and 4 concern the antiterrorist procedures.

The remaining 21 offenses concern the offense of apology of terrorism, subscribed since November 2014 in the Penal Code. The procedures then rely on leaflets, various documents, or posts on Facebook or dating sites, discovered during the physical and computer searches.

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Before the Administrative Court 63 house arrest, two bans on demonstrations, two restrictions freedom of worship, two sales bans, closure of restaurants and two administrative searches were challenged. On these appeals, 49 appeals were rejected, 23 procedures have however been canceled or suspended.

According to France Inter, six house arrest measures have been totally or partially canceled. An emblematic case remains, that of environmental activists who have been subject to such a procedure.

The French police on patrol in Saint-Denis 18 November 2015 (illustration).

AFP / KENZO TRIBOUILLARD

Opponents of the extension

While the extension of the state of emergency until February 26 was passed to virtually unanimously by Parliament in November, its continuation is debated today. The League of Human Rights said it had seized the State Council to stop, totally or in part, the binding measures of the state of emergency, which are no longer justified according to it and carry “a serious and manifest public freedoms.” The highest administrative court will review Tuesday, January 26 from a ‘application for interim measures freedom “in meaning, announced one of its representatives, the lawyer Patrice Spinosi.

In addition, the League of Human Rights (LDH) and the Union of Lawyers of France (SAF) announced Tuesday the creation in Lyon, as in all departments of an “observatory excesses of the state of emergency” implemented after the attacks of November 13. Concretely, explained Thomas Fourrey, president of the Lyon section of FAS, the observatory will aim to provide “a comprehensive view of what is happening. People are afraid and ashamed, it’s a taboo” including when “we just break your door at 2am, vis-à-vis neighbors.”

Some legal institutions have also expressed their desire to be excluded numerous judicial proceedings. “We are concerned. As a democratic state never comes out reinforced its weakened Justice or to increases police powers without control,” was said in particular the first president of the Court of Appeal of Caen Jean-Paul Roughol .

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