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The freedom of action of customs officers suspended

2022-09-25T16:40:19.160Z


The Constitutional Council pinned the article of the customs code on which the searches are based. The customs officer's flair is over. This unique, almost supernatural ability to detect, in an infinitesimal sign, the commission of an offense or the presence of a prohibited substance. The setting for this know-how: Article 60 of the Customs Code which stipulates that "with a view to detecting fraud, customs officers may inspect goods and means of transport and some people". A conciseness invers


The customs officer's flair is over.

This unique, almost supernatural ability to detect, in an infinitesimal sign, the commission of an offense or the presence of a prohibited substance.

The setting for this know-how: Article 60 of the Customs Code which stipulates that "with a view to detecting fraud, customs officers may inspect goods and means of transport and some people".

A conciseness inversely proportional to what it induces: the immense freedom that customs officers have to decide on an inspection, its duration, its extent, all without having to justify it beforehand.

Last Thursday, the Constitutional Council dynamited this

"menhir, this cornerstone on which the customs code has rested for fifty years"

, rejoices Me Eugène Bangoura, lawyer at the bar of Bourges who, supported by Me Bertrand Périer, carried the case before the sages of the Montpensier gallery.

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Source: lefigaro

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