Who says that in France power is vertical? In light of what is happening, we should say it is rather… horizontal. In fact, there is power and counter-power. One does (or tries to do), the others undo.
As the saying goes: “humor is in the disorder.”
1 On Monday, the Council of State ordered the government to lift the “general and absolute” ban on gatherings in places of worship, implemented under the state of health emergency, due to its “disproportionate nature.” Seized in summary proceedings by several associations and individual applicants, the highest administrative court judged in an order that this ban constituted a “serious and manifestly illegal infringement” on freedom of worship. It enjoins the government to lift it “within eight days.”
2 At the beginning of May, two civil liberties advocacy groups, La Quadrature du Net and the Human Rights League, filed a complaint against the Paris Police Prefecture, pointing out an illegitimate use of drones to enforce lockdown measures. Addressed, the summary judge initially rejected the associations’ appeal, which then decided to appeal to the Council of State: a hearing was thus held on Monday, and it proved the administrative court’s initial decision wrong.
Until further notice, drones used by law enforcement in France are thus grounded.
Including in Nice, the Mayor announced, a fan of technological modernity, who finds himself halted in his tracks.
