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Pension reform: is the nominative file of demonstrators illegal?

5/17/2023, 6:08:19 PM

Highlights: The justice rules Thursday on the legality of a spreadsheet listing several detainees arrested in the processions of opponents to the pension reform. Several organizations are calling for the use of a nominative file of people taken into custody during the various mobilizations to be suspended. If the representatives of the Ministry of Justice have acknowledged the existence of such a file in Lille, they speak of a simple "management tool" This file takes the form of an Excel spreadsheet, details the surnames, first names and dates of birth of several dozen demonstrators.


The justice rules Thursday on the legality of a spreadsheet listing several detainees arrested in the processions of opponents to the pension reform.

The justice will decide this Thursday, May 18. Several organizations are calling for the use of a nominative file of people taken into custody during the various mobilizations against the pension reform, the existence of which was revealed by an article in Mediapart, to be suspended. If the representatives of the Ministry of Justice have acknowledged the existence of such a file in Lille, they speak of a simple "management tool".

This file, which takes the form of an Excel spreadsheet, details the surnames, first names and dates of birth of several dozen demonstrators taken into custody as part of their participation in demonstrations against the pension reform, as well as the criminal consequences given. The representatives of the Ministry of Justice argued that the practice was in accordance with the decree governing Cassiopée, a database operating thanks to a secure software, which gathers the data of the defendants, victims or witnesses of the judicial proceedings of the last ten ...

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