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Jean-Éric Schoettl: "Terrorism, Islamism: loosening our legal constraints to finally act"

2020-10-21T19:12:51.416Z


MAJOR INTERVIEW - The former Secretary General of the Constitutional Council, Honorary State Counselor, explains with clarity and precision the very strict legal framework which limits the capacity of the State to act and even, according to him, paralyzes it. And he advocates solutions commensurate with the danger.


Everyone feels it: general declarations are no longer enough.

It is in the light of the acts, whether they are effective or abortive, that the French will assess the seriousness of the response of the public authorities to the murderer with clarity and precision the very strict legal framework which limits the capacity to act of the State and even, according to him, paralyzes it.

And he advocates solutions commensurate with the danger.

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LE FIGARO.- Is it true that the State's “weapons” against jihadist terrorism and in matters of expulsion and the rights of foreigners have been cut for thirty or forty years?

Jean-Éric SCHOETTL.-

For the past forty years, higher legal standards (Constitution, treaties and above all case law of supreme courts) in the area of ​​fundamental rights have increasingly constrained the margin of action of the public authorities.

Also, the bold ideas launched in the public debate to fight against Islamism (internment of the most dangerous S files by

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Source: lefigaro

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