The Human Rights League, the MRAP, and AdN have filed an urgent suspension request and a nullification appeal with the Nice Administrative Court against the so-called “anti-bivouac” decree recently issued by the mayor of Nice.
According to these associations, it appears that this decree, despite some presentational artifices, contravenes the law.
“For the past few days, in the city center, the harassment by ‘people in uniform’ targeting Roma families and their children has intensified.
Woken up abruptly, jostled, threatened, chased away multiple times a night, they can no longer find rest. Under the pretext of restoring order, intolerable inhumane treatments are being freely administered.
Could these be operations inspired by the ‘anti-bivouac’ decree? In any case, they provoke our indignation,” they declare with one voice.
Christian Estrosi’s response was swift. In turn, the mayor of Nice denounces the false, caricatural, and insulting remarks made against the Nice municipal police.
According to Christian Estrosi: “These statements are totally false and stigmatize the municipal police. It would have sufficed for these associations to read the decree I issued, rather than commenting on it without having obtained it, to see that it is not applicable between midnight and seven in the morning. Furthermore, each intervention by the municipal police is recorded in the logbook and confirms that they operate within a legal and regulatory framework.
By spreading these lies, these associations, whose commitment I respect, damage the cause they claim to defend and seek to misinform. I will initiate proceedings for slanderous denunciation and defamation against those who pretend to teach me lessons in humanism by denouncing imaginary facts.”
