{"id":15223,"date":"2015-12-13T10:44:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T15:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15223"},"modified":"2015-12-13T10:44:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T15:44:01","slug":"emergency-measures-may-be-written-into-the-french-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15223","title":{"rendered":"‘Emergency’ Measures May Be Written Into the French Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cEMERGENCY\u201d MEASURES MAY BE WRITTEN INTO THE FRENCH CONSTITUTION<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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JUST HOURS INTO A TERRORIST ATTACK\u00a0that started on the evening of Nov. 13, and would eventually claim 130 lives, Fran\u00e7ois Hollande announced that France was reestablishing border controls, and used a 1955 law to proclaim a state of emergency.<\/p>\n

This 60-year-old law gives French law enforcement wide and sweeping powers, freeing them from much of the normal judicial oversight. The law gives\u00a0prefects,\u00a0the French government\u2019s local representatives, the ability to place people under house arrest, based merely on the suspicion of the intelligence service that they pose a threat to national security. They can also order police raids targeting any place where they think information about terrorism may be found, without a warrant.<\/p>\n

Initially intended to last 12 days, the state of emergency was\u00a0extended on November 19 for an additional three months by both chambers of parliament. During the vote in the lower house, only six MPs voted against the extension.<\/p>\n

In some instances, the concrete consequences of the state of emergency border on the Kafkaesque.\u00a0There\u2019s this man<\/a>, who was challenging the requirement that he report frequently to a police station (one of the other features of the state of emergency law). Because his court hearing to challenge the requirement was late, he showed up 40 minutes past the time he was supposed to be at the police station. He was immediately detained.\u00a0Then there\u2019s this man<\/a>, who was\u00a0placed under house arrest in southwestern France because he was suspected of being a radical Muslim \u2014 except he is a devout Catholic. The police also raided a halal restaurant for no apparent reason.<\/p>\n

Since last month\u2019s attacks, there have been some 2,500 police raids, and nearly a thousand people have been arrested or detained. French local and national press are\u00a0now full of reports of questionable police raids.<\/p>\n

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