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The last work published by Gaspard Koenig: “Notre vagabonde liberté” (Éditions de l'Observatoire).
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- Gérald Darmanin
deplored on October 26 the lack of CCTV cameras in some neighborhoods
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Is security worth sacrificing some of our privacy?
Gaspard KOENIG.
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Voltaire said that it is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent person.
Today, should we put millions of innocent people under surveillance to prevent potential harm?
In an open society, there should not be a priori suspicion, but a posteriori sanctions.
We are supposed to suppress the fault, not the intention.
It is an essential principle of the rule of law.
One of the first measures decided by the French Revolution was the prohibition of the opening of correspondence by the king's black cabinet, a practice denounced by the population in the notebooks of grievances.
We preferred to give up (a little) his security, rather than (completely)
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