France condemned by the ECHR for a police trap in a demonstration in 2010. The European Court of Human Rights considers that France has committed violations of the freedoms of movement, assembly and excercise.
The case concerns the encirclement of the applicants, a dozen people, for several hours by the police on Place Bellecour in Lyon, on October 21, 2010, during a demonstration against a bill on the pension reform. The Ministry of the Interior has since published a new national plan for maintaining order, in December 2021, which governs this technique.