Alain Madelin: "The State considers itself legitimate, in the name of good, to jeopardize fundamental freedoms"

LE FIGARO.

- "The fragility of human health can provide the State with a permanent justification for a permanent state of exception", alerted in

Alain MADELIN.

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No, but the threat exists.

Periods of great peril, such as the plague, are similar to periods of a state of war.

In 1720, during the plague epidemic, France sent troops to erect a wall around Marseilles, then to guard a 285 km border inside Provence - with orders to fire on those who tried to escape, even though they would have been healthy.

If necessary, the order could be given to them to destroy the houses, even to raze the villages.

Wartime is therefore, by nature, a suspension of freedoms.

In cases of absolute danger, an authority - in this case the State - is endowed with full powers.

It is for me the Leviathan, the absolute horror.

But, ultimately, the state...

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