2023-04-28 13:28:07
With each trip by Emmanuel Macron, his batch of saucepans… and his prefectural decree to keep the demonstrators at a safe distance. Since the promulgation of the law reforming pensions, the prefects have multiplied the security perimeters during presidential or ministerial visits in order to prevent demonstrators from approaching, based on article L 226-1 of the security code. interior, or an anti-terrorist text.
After several appeals filed, the Orleans administrative court urgently suspended, on Tuesday April 25, the decree of the prefect of Loir-et-Cher during a trip by the Head of State to Vendôme, explaining that“a protection perimeter may only be established by the prefect in application of these provisions for the purpose of ensuring the security of a place or event exposed to a risk of acts of terrorism due to its nature and the extent of its attendance”. “In the absence of special circumstances, a trip by the President of the Republic cannot be regarded as justifying in itself, by its nature, the establishment of a security perimeter”specifies the administrative court.
No question for Place Beauvau to multiply the disappointments before the administrative justice. In an email sent, Tuesday, April 25, to the prefects, revealed by Release and to which The world has had access, the Director of Public Liberties and Legal Affairs of the Ministry of the Interior therefore rings “the alert to avoid new suspensions”affirming that the establishment of security perimeters on the basis of article L 226-1 of the internal security code is “misuse of procedure”.
An alert “
The Home Office writes: “As several jurisdictions have just recalled, such perimeters may only be set up for the sole purpose of ensuring the security of a place or event exposed to a risk of acts of terrorism because of its nature and extent of its attendance. Similarly, the measures taken in this context (prohibition of possession of certain objects in particular) must be directly linked to the prevention of this risk of an act of terrorism. » Some prefects had in fact associated the security perimeter with the prohibition, for example, of “portable sound devices”causing pans to seize.
The director concludes her email by inviting the prefects to take into account this ” alert “, « to avoid further suspensions” et « insofar as the application of the SILT law [sécurité intérieure et lutte contre le terrorisme]from which article L. 226-1 of the internal security code is derived, gives rise to close and regular parliamentary control”.
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