The obligation to wear a mask outdoors in Paris suspended by justice – Liberation

“As it was neither necessary nor strictly proportionate, the administrative court wished to suspend the decree.” This is the conclusion drawn by Me Jean-Baptiste Soufron, one of the lawyers behind the appeal, after the suspension of the prefectural decree making it compulsory to wear a mask outdoors in Paris.

Asked by AFP, the police headquarters reserved its response to the receipt of the decision.

The administrative court of Paris made this decision on Thursday. This decision comes the day after that of the Administrative Court of Versailles, which had suspended a similar decree, a first on national territory, considering that the measure was “an excessive, disproportionate and inappropriate interference […] to individual liberty”.

The decision concerning this decree of the capital’s police headquarters, put in place to deal with the emergence of the omicron variant, will be published on Friday, added the Paris administrative court.

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