Emotion […] exceeds the legal rules that apply
, said Tuesday Christophe Castaner, the Minister of the Interior, to explain that he would tolerate demonstrations against racism, although they are not not actually authorized
. This positioning, strongly criticized by some, brought water to the mill of associations like the League for Human Rights (LDH) and unions like the CGT, who were demanding Thursday, June 11, the state Council, the official lifting of the ban on the right to demonstrate.
“At the very beginning of next week at the latest”
Since the beginning of the deconfinement, on May 11, gatherings of more than ten people remain prohibited on the public highway. They explain to the French that they can go to coffee and mass, but not demonstrate. It is difficult to understand
, deplores LDH lawyer Patrice Spinosi. We are in “The last square of prohibitions”, said, for his part, the government representative, Charles Touboul, director of legal affairs at the Ministry of Health. By encouraging patience.
The Council of State must decide no later than the start of next week
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But the question could be asked again on July 10. From that date, the government plans to lift the state of health emergency. However, in his bill presented to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, it provides to organize a transitional period
four months, during which the Prime Minister will retain the possibility of regulating travel and access to means of transport, the opening of establishments open to the public and gatherings on the public highway
. So the demonstrations.
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