State of emergency: its extension is “quite likely” Judge Holland – BFMTV.COM

François Hollande spoke Wednesday extended the state of emergency as “quite likely” during his meeting with the presidents of the Senate and the National Assembly and Gerard Larcher Claude Bartolone, said this last at the end of the meeting.

The president “has evoked quite likely,” said Claude Bartolone, told the press in the courtyard of the Elysee. “He told us he would have the opportunity to communicate quickly to allow the State Council and the Parliament to vote on this text,” he said.

Enacted after the events of November 13, emergency should normally expire on February 26. It strengthens police powers, enabling residence assignments, administrative searches of day or night, or prohibition of gatherings, all without control of the judicial judge.

The decision when to its possible extension will be made “in the coming days”, had said earlier the Elysee AFP. “The executive – Head of State, Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior – has not taken its decision but must take it in the coming days, given the parliamentary calendar”, explained the source.

“Causing serious civil liberties”

While the extension of the state of emergency until February 26 had been passed to virtually unanimously by Parliament in November, its continuation is debated today.

PS Chairman of the Committee on Laws of the Assembly, Jean-Jacques Urvoas (PS), had himself estimated last Wednesday that the interest of the state of emergency was fading as the main objectives have been achieved, but noted that out of this state of emergency would be “a difficult act to take.”

The application of this regime “was a consensual decision,” noted the elected Socialist Finistere. “Getting out will be a more difficult act to take (…) I wish we could get out of the state of emergency there as well by showing responsibility when the time comes,” added Jean-Jacques Urvoas, a close Prime Minister Manuel Valls.

Wednesday, the League of Human Rights said it had seized the State Council to stop, totally or in part, to the binding measures of the state of emergency, which are according it more justified and are “a serious and manifest public freedoms”. The highest administrative court will review Tuesday, January 26 when an “application for interim measures freedom” in this sense, has announced one of its representatives, the lawyer Patrice Spinosi.